All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken More Quotes by Paul Hawken More Quotes From Paul Hawken Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break. Paul Hawken craftsbreakluck The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss. Paul Hawken lossnumbersappreciation What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. Paul Hawken accountabilitygovernmentmissing It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity. Paul Hawken sufferinghumanityearth 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 venturecostresponsibility Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. Paul Hawken erosionlossmen Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. Paul Hawken intelligentselfmoving 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 chargingoilyears Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids. Paul Hawken costplaykids 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 corporationsfinancialreturn When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Paul Hawken environmentaldarkorder We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich. Paul Hawken sufferinghealingpeople Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. Paul Hawken aberrationdevelopmenthumans Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets that this freedom can only be experienced within the discipline of social responsibility. Paul Hawken disciplineresponsibilityorder If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart. Paul Hawken optimisticdataheart If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. Paul Hawken top-downnatureinspirational Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways. Paul Hawken choicesbusinessorder There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience. Paul Hawken hegemonyrisingdecision At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. Paul Hawken sellingstealingcalling Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. Paul Hawken safetylawmother
