The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere. George Monbiot
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi
  2. People would rather believe than know. - Edward O. Wilson
  3. The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, which operates in congruence to our vibrations, I think it is more important to be one with each other. If you really want... - Suzy Kassem
  4. The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense. - Judah Freed
  5. If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. - Criss Jami
More Quotes By George Monbiot
  1. The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of...
  2. If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
  3. Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue...
  4. Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
  5. Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
Related Topics