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

The cosmology of scientific materialism … considers the cosmos an absurd accident, and life within it to be no more than another accident.

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

Even if we can never quantify [satisfaction or happiness]... as precisely as we currently quantify GNP,... perhaps it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.