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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. Paul Hawken

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We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. Paul Hawken

Brilliant Only Employment Without Planet Full Species

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. Paul Hawken

Business World Way Say Destroying Polite

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

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Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. Paul Hawken

Business Responsibility Members Network Costs Voluntary Venture Doing Social Required Who Businesses Social Responsibility Therefore Basis Raising Competitors

In short, industrialism is over. Paul Hawken

Over Short

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. Paul Hawken

Will High Charging Only Prices Know Well Renewables Years Very Than Oil Oil Companies Interestingly Less Companies

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. Paul Hawken

Try Will Poverty Increasing More Longer Prosper Human Create Productivity

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. Paul Hawken

Government Accountability Missing Utterly

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream. Paul Hawken

Education You Business World Entrepreneur Other Way Out Critical Carrying Seeing Ongoing Impatience Thriving Through Outside Step Developing Mainstream Idea Clearly Concern Around Causes Lack Then Choice Lives

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. Paul Hawken

Future You Science Earth About Data Look Understand Answer Always Am Optimistic Same Happening Asked Pessimistic

Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Paul Hawken

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You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. Paul Hawken

Life You Money Out Bail Print Print Money Bank Planet

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. Paul Watson

Money Destroy More Ecology Tragedy Than Much Incentive Preserve

The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. Paul Watson

Language Economics Only Industry Understands Whaling Japanese

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean. Paul Watson

Ocean Live Out Wipe Dead Oceans Fish Die Going Planet

There are very few fishermen left today. Paul Watson

Today Fishermen Few Left Very

Social change comes through people. Paul Watson

Change People Through Social Social Change

No species is more important than others. Paul Watson

Important Others More Than Species

The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. Paul Watson

Natural Ocean Opposing No Reason Fact Disaster Because Southern Whaling Just Stop Just Because Natural Disaster Japan Us Reason Illegal Activities

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. Paul Watson

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In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations. Paul Watson

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