John B. Cobb famous quotes

The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.
-- John B. Cobb

#Oil #Environmental #Needs

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.
-- John B. Cobb

#Reason #Homosexuality #Homophobia

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.
-- John B. Cobb

#Environmental #Attention #Earth

Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.
-- John B. Cobb

#Using Resources #Discovery #Humanity

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Remember you love writing.  It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t.  If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.