Andrew Simms quotes

“We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming”
-- Andrew Simms

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“Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.”
-- Andrew Simms

Source : "Economists start to consider that money can't buy happiness" by Ashley Seager, Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

#Growth Quotes #World Quotes #Infinite Quotes

“It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay”
-- Andrew Simms

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“Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system”
-- Andrew Simms

Source : "Fund clean energy with oil tax" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2006.

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“Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.”
-- Andrew Simms

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“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

Source : "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

“I spent 24 and a half years in prison”

“The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation”

“the biggest ever scientific fraud”

“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.”

Source : Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.13, Macmillan

“Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.”

“There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.”

“Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.”

Source : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

“This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

“We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.”