Andrew Simms 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

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  Country, Ice Cream, Economic Value

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• Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

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  Economics, Redundant, Humankind

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• Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

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  Growth, World, Infinite

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

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• We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

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  Half, Global Warming, Century

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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

  Oil, Sea, Pay

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

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