Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken
Paul Hawkenis an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist ...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth8 February 1946
CountryUnited States of America
bail life money print
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.
business life
The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.
behalf endless ensuring expression future generosity infinite life
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.
life down-and slow-down
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.
inspirational life religious
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.
either wallpaper
There's no in-between. Either Audible will be wallpaper or it will be a billion-dollar-plus company.
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.
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.
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.
business
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.
ecological financial gives information masked measured money
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.