Heroes for a Better World

Hazel Henderson
(1933-)

English Futurist, Evolutionary Economist

birthdate: ?
birthplace:
Bristol, England

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Women know how much time, love and effort goes into raising a child. When war arises, all that is reduced to nothing . . . this is why women's active participation in conflict resolution is of great importance.

We have the power to alter our destiny...

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

[GNP] values, for example, bombs and bullets since they are things that are produced for money. It does not value the environment. It values salaries paid to teachers, but it does not value what people know -- how educated they are. It places no value on `human capital,' meaning people. It does not even place a value on the public infrastructure.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth.

 


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