Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken
Paul Hawkenis an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist ...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth8 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
class decline figure human last means paper published rate refute system thirty time
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.
beings human movement ridiculed
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.
human supreme
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.
humanity suffering earth
It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.
spiritual inspiration humanity
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.
development aberration humans
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
trying poverty humans
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
good-business humans human-beings
Being a good human being is good business.
either wallpaper
There's no in-between. Either Audible will be wallpaper or it will be a billion-dollar-plus company.
becoming coherent either forces minority plurality represent rising shift systems threatened top
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
bail life money print
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.
cheaper destroy rather sustain tells time
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.
along became society somewhere states united wasteful
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
full planet species
We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.