We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism. Mikhail Gorbachev
The long term solution to the financial crisis is to move beyond the ‘growth at all costs' economic model to a model that recognizes the real costs and benefits of growth. Robert Costanza
In its quest to control an unruly world, the Pentagon - acting in the name of the American people - slices and dices that world into smaller and smaller segments, while neglecting to assess the actual costs and benefits of the persistent meddling that it terms engagement. Andrew Bacevich