Garrett Hardin

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

Today’s Green Thought comes from the late american

ecologist Garrett Hardin (1915 – 2003) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Hardin

Gary Snyder - ‘Four Changes'

Everything that lives eats food, and is food in turn…….

To grossly use more than you need, to destroy, is biologically unsound.

Much of the production and consumption of modern societies is not necessary or conducive to spiritual and cultural growth, let alone survival; and is behind much greed and envy.

Today’s Green Thought comes from the american Beat poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder’s 1969 essay ‘Four Changes’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder

John Maynard Keynes

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountants profit, we have begun to change our civilisation.  

 Today’s Green Thought comes from the highly influential British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

 

Lewis Mumford - The Myth of the Machine

If man had originally inhabited a world as blankly uniform as a ‘high rise’ housing development, or as featureless as a parking lot, as destitute of life as an automated factory, it is doubtful that he would have had a sufficiently varied experience to retain images, mould language or acquire ideas.

 

The american historian and philosopher of technology and science Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) provides today’s Green Thought. It comes from page 154 of his superb 1966 book The Myth of the Machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Machine