Herman Daly
(1938-)

American Ecological Economist

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QUOTES

"The optimal scale of the economy is smaller, the greater is the degree of complementarity between natural and man-made capital; our desire for direct experience of nature; and our estimate of both the intrinsic and instrumental value of other species. The smaller the optimal scale of the economy, the sooner its physical growth becomes uneconomic."

"There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business in liquidation."

“If you’ve eaten poison, you must get rid of the substances that are making you ill. Let us then, apply the stomach pump to the doctrines of economic growth that we have been forced-fed for decades.”

“We cannot have too many people alive simultaneously lest we destroy carrying capacity and thereby reduce the number of lives possible in all subsequent time periods.”

“Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by the economic physicians (pro-growth advocates) who attempt to treat the sickness with unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited production. We do not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.”

“Current economic growth has uncoupled itself from the world and has become irrelevant. Worse, it has become a blind guide.”

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