Madeleine Bunting quotes
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“Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children”
-- Madeleine BuntingSource : "Greens Need to Grasp the Nettle: Aren't There Just Too Many People?". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.
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“You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.”
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“So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.”
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“What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.”
-- Madeleine Bunting -
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“You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.”
-- Madeleine BuntingSource : "The end is nigh" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2001.
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