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"We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet."

-- Paul Hawken (environmentalist, entrepreneur, author)

Source: Commencement Speech, University of Portland, 2009. See speech here.

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