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• I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

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  Country, Thinking, Political

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• People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

  Paul Hawken

  Technology, People, Age

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

  Paul Hawken

  Kids, Play, Cost

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.

  Paul Hawken

  Feel Better, Thinking, Want

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• In short, industrialism is over.

  Paul Hawken

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, Context Institute (p. 17), www.context.org. Summer 1995.

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• It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.

  Paul Hawken

  Humanity, Suffering, Earth

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• That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

  Paul Hawken

  Age, Information, Transformation

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

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  Appreciation, Loss, Numbers

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

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  Mother, Law, Safety

  Paul Hawken (2013). “The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

  Paul Hawken

  Heart, Optimistic, Data

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.12, Penguin

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• You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

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  Healing, Dark, Light

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• Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.

  Paul Hawken

  Years, Information, Today

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• The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

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  Corporations, Return, Financial

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• What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

  Paul Hawken

  Insight, Knows

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.24, Penguin

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• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

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  Dark, Order, Environmental

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• Don't go to business school.

  Paul Hawken

  Business, School, School Bus

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• We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, People, Suffering

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring" by Paul Hawken, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

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  Aberration, Development, Humans

  Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins (1999). “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution”, p.5, Earthscan

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• The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic burst of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna.

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  Sky, People, Water

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• We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

  Paul Hawken

  Life, Down And, Slow Down

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• Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

  Paul Hawken

  Ties, Connections, Looks

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• What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

  Paul Hawken

  Climate, This Generation, Generations

  "Review: 'The 11th Hour' a message of hope for Mother Earth" by Joe Garofoli, www.sfgate.com. August 23, 2007.

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• We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Thinking, Practice

  "Capital Gains" by Paul Hawken, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

  Paul Hawken

  Long, Environmental, Path

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

  Paul Hawken

  Environmental, Use, Way

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