erik's quotes

The Great Disruption

erik — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:07:20 +0000

We've been borrowing from the future, and the debt has fallen due. The science says we have physically entered a period of great change, a synchronized, related crash of the economy and ecosystem.

Trial and Error

erik — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:05:44 +0000

"If you cannot remember what you are told, you must use trial and error. The thing to keep in mind about trial and error is that some errors are quite final.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment

erik — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:45:52 +0000

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.

It’s not your job to change minds

erik — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:29:21 +0000

Don’t waste time arguing with someone who won’t change their minds. It’s not your job to change minds, it’s your job to find minds that want to change.

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture

erik — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:57:16 +0000

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

vacancies in museums

erik — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:59:38 +0000

If leaders don’t think in new ways, there are vacancies for them in museums

Don’t confuse getting rid of what you don’t want

erik — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:42:49 +0000

Don’t confuse getting rid of what you don’t want, with getting what you do want.

The highest purpose of humanity

erik — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:47:20 +0000

The highest purpose of humanity is to be good stewards of the resources we are blessed with, not to hold our breath in an effort to minimize our CO2 emmissions.

other cultural perspectives

erik — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:18:39 +0000

The fact that there are other cultural perspectives which prefer adaptation over manipulation is encouraging. We don't have to think the ways we currently do. We have choice.

What you do makes a difference

erik — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:48:54 +0000

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

If you have come to help me...

erik — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:11:07 +0000

If you have come to help me you can go home again. But if you see my struggle as part of your own survival then perhaps we can find a way to work together.

Climate change economics is the next industrial revolution

erik — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:09:36 +0000

Climate change economics is the next industrial revolution. The countries who invest now in this new growth market will gain the advantage of a first mover. Those who don't risk being left behind.

We do not need magic to change the world

erik — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:19:13 +0000

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

lower our voices...follow the guidance

erik — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:05:59 +0000

The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress and to be

irreplaceable capital

erik — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:04:38 +0000

The illusion is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which it has been erected.