3 December 2020 Paul Hawken 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we’re surrendering it all at the same time.