Monday 26 November 2012

Aldo Leopold - “A Sand County Almanac”

"We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

Todays Green Thought comes the Forward to Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac”.
 

Monday 19 November 2012

John Maynard Keynes - ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money’

'Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences’ are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back’.
 
Todays Green Thought is taken from ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money’, by John Maynard Keynes (1936).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

Monday 12 November 2012

Marshall Sahlins - 'Stone Age Economics'

 there are two possible courses to affluence. Wants may be ‘easily satisfied’ either by producing much, or desiring little.
From page 1 of the American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins 1974 book Stone Age Economics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins
http://www.eco-action.org/dt/affluent.html

Monday 5 November 2012

John Gray - Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

 'humans ... cannot destroy the Earth, but they can easily wreck the environment that sustains them.'

John Gray (philosopher and author, formerly School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics) wrote in Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, (2002).
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray