The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'
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I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.
My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
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