Lao Tzu

A person that knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Lao Tzu, the 6^th century BC philosopher and poet of ancient China.

 

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

 

Garrett Hardin

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Garrett Hardin (1915 – 2003) was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation.

 

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

Karl Popper

The alleged clash between freedom and security …….. turns out to be a chimera. For there is no freedom if it is not secured by the state; and conversely, only a state which is controlled by free citizens can offer them any reasonable security.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Karl Popper an Austrian-British^[5] philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.

 

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

Adam Smith

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) the Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy.

 

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

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

Gregory Bateson

"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think."

 

Gregory Bateson (1904 –1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist.

 

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

 

Robert Kuttner - ‘The Role of Governments in the Global Economy’

"In (the Global Economy), a Democratic President, a Labour Prime Minister or a Social-Democratic Chancellor can snub the unions, but he’d better not offend Wall Street or the City of London or Frankfurt. Even the nominally left party begins behaving like the right party."

This weeks Green Thought is taken from ‘The Role of Governments in the Global Economy’ by Robert Kuttner in ‘Global Capitalism’ by Hutton& Giddens (eds) (2000). 

 

 

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

I.H.Pearce and L.H.Crocker - The Peckham Experiment, a study of the living structure of society

Health is not a state. It is a process; a mutual synthesis of organism and environment. This implies that a self-sustaining ecological balance underlies health.

Unless both man and his environment are obeying the biological law of mutual synthesis, there can be no health. To cultivate health one must cultivate and maintain a healthy environment

This weeks Green Thought comes from I.H.Pearce and L.H.Crocker, The Peckham Experiment, a study of the living structure of society. 1943.

 

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

http://thephf.org/

http://www.marylangmanprize.org.uk/books-about-the-peckham-experiment