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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
- Not Fair
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
- Nov 07, 2020
Subsidize... or lend.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020