Graciela Chichilnisky Quotes

The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.

I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

There is an economic revolution taking place throughout Latin America and we must be a part of it.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

We need a transformation of the world economy and of how we use and share the Earth's resources. We are running out of time. We are truly at the point of no return.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself

When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives.

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.