" In a world where a billion workers cannot find a decent job or any employment at all, it bears stating the obvious: We cannot by any means -- monetarily, governmentally, or charitably -- create a sense of value and dignity in people's lives when we are simultaneously creating a society
that has no need for them...

" Social wounds cannot be salved nor the environment "saved" as long as people cling to the outdated assumption of classical industrialism that the summum bonum of commercial enterprise is to use more natural capital and fewer people.
The true bottom line is this:
a society that wastes its resources
wastes its people and vice versa.
And both kinds of waste are expensive."

— Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism 1999