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William E. Rees quotes

Ocupation: Professor

Life: b. December 18, 1943

Birthday: December 18

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The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

Topics: Inspiring, Intelligent, Self, Good News

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Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

Topics: Inspiring, Easter, Ruins, Mayans, Human Society

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age...

Topics: Age, Gone, Stories, Ecological Crisis

One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.

Topics: Christian, Men, Thinking, Jewish Culture

To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

Topics: Perfect, Long, Risk, High Risk

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.

Topics: Real, Sea, Long, Paper Money, Real Gold

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