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2011
Nobel prize laureate
Change in Awareness
"Our call is for fundamental transformation and innovation in all spheres and at all scales in order to stop and reverse global environmental change and move toward fair and lasting prosperity for present and future generations. […] There are compelling reasons to rethink the conventional model of economic development. Tinkering with the economic system that generated the global crises is not enough."
(in: "The Stockholm Memorandum. Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability." Stockholm, 18. Mai 2011)
2011
Meinhard Miegel, Chairman of the Board of Denkwerk Zukunft
New Definition of Wealth
"Because prosperity and growth have long been used as synonyms and measured largely on the basis of material considerations only. Both of these assumptions have proved false. All sorts of things can grow without there being a corresponding rise in prosperity. Prosperity can even fall if, for instance, finite resources are used up or the environment is damaged. What's more, it has been shown that material considerations are not the only, and certainly not the primary, factor to influence most people's perception of prosperity. Other factors such as health, an intact family, friends and leisure are just as, if not more, important. We have to take account of these findings in future. Otherwise, the indicators we use won't reflect reality."
(im Interview für "Unternehmerische Verantwortung" auf www.bosch.com, 18. März 2011)
2011
Achim Steiner, UNEP Exekutivdirektor
New Definition of Wealth
"The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century. The fact is that of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world's food, over 70 are pollinated by bees. […] Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less dependent on nature's services in a world of close to seven billion people".
(in seiner Rede anlässlich der Vorstellung des UNEP Reports “Global Bee Colony Disorders and other Threats to Insect Pollinators“, 10. März 2011)
2011
Min Zhu, International Monetary Fund
New Definition of Wealth
"If you ask anyone in the emerging markets, what is your life model … they will say American lifestyle: big house and big cars … and a pension. … But it won’t work, right, because we absolutely don’t have [these] resources... The whole world has to work together to figure out a model for tomorrow."
(Rede auf dem World Economic Forum in Davos am 26. Januar 2011)
2010
Josef Ackermann, Deutsche Bank AG
Cultural Renewable
"This relates to today.s question: ¡°How do we deliver the next economy?¡± There are many facets to that, ranging from the shifting geography of growth to shifts between industries. One thing is clear: The next economy must be cleaner and more energy-efficient if we want to drive further global growth and, at the same time, keep our climate intact. This transformation will be nothing less than a new industrial revolution . a revolution that will change the way we live."
("Green growth - the role of financial institutions", Global Metro Summit: Delivering the next Economy, Chicago, 8 December 2010)
2010
Dennis Meadows, Scientist
Limits of Growth
"Growth will soon come to an end along one of two paths. Either humanity can turn to the pursuit of quality rather than quantity, or problems such as climate change and oil depletion will bring on stagnation and decline despite our best efforts to sustain a rising GDP."
(auf der Konferenz des Denkwerks Zukunft, 30. November 2009)
2010
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
New Definition of Wealth
"But here we are, and today the government is asking the Office of National Statistics to devise a new way of measuring wellbeing in Britain. And so from April next year, we’ll start measuring our progress as a country, not just by how our economy is growing, but by how our lives are improving; not just by our standard of living, but by our quality of life."
(Rede zum Thema "wellbeing", 25. November 2010)
2010
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
New Definition of Wealth
"It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB - general wellbeing."
(Zitiert in: BBC News, 15. November 2010)
2010
Jeremy Rifkin, Präsident der Foundation of Economic Trends
Cultural Renewable
“This next stage after the collapse of Copenhagen and now with the collapse of the global economy, we have to change the way we think about all this and we have to see that opportunity for a new economic vision, game plan and a new economic revolution that will get us to a post-carbon society.”
(im EurActiv-Interview, am 16. Juni 2010)
2010
Herman Van Rompuy, Präsident des Europäischen Rates
Plea for Economic Growth
"We need more economic growth, in order to finance on a sound basis our social model, to preserve our European way of life."
(bei seiner Antrittsrede, zitiert in: Deutsche Welle, 4. Januar 2010)
2010
Edmund Phelps, Columbia University
New Definition of Wealth
"The good economy should serve the good life."
(zitiert in: Nachhaltigkeit – Monatsthema 01/10: Besser statt mehr – Wachstum im Wandel, Januar 2010)
2009
Nicolas Stern, London School of Economics
Limits of Growth
"Rich nations will have to forget about growth to stop climate change."
(zitiert in: The Guardian, 11 September 2009)
2009
Centre for Global Growth Companies
Plea for Economic Growth
"A more holistic, multi-sector cooperative approach to promoting growth is necessary to save jobs and create new ones and to "reskill" and "upskill" workforces."
(Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2009)
2009
Joseph E. Stiglitz/Amartya Sen/ Jean-Paul Fitoussi
New Definition of Wealth
"Current well-being has to do with both economic resources, such as income, and with non-economic aspects of peoples’ life (what they do and what they can do, how they feel, and the natural environment they live in). Whether these levels of well-being can be sustained over time depends on whether stocks of capital that matter for our lives (natural, physical, human, social) are passed on to future generations.”
(in: "Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress”, September 2009)
2009
Herman Daly/Tim Jackson u.a.
Cultural Renewable
"We see [today] a society and a Government whose primary objective is still the achievement of economic growth as conventionally understood and measured, with as much social justice and environmental protection as can be reconciled with that central goal. We envisage a society whose primary goal should be the wellbeing of society itself and of the planetary resources and environment that sustains us all, with economic objectives shaped to support that central goal rather than the other way around."
(in: "Open Letter to the Queen", 14. August 2009)
2009
Barack Obama, Präsident der USA
Plea for Economic Growth
"Our efforts must begin with swift action to stimulate growth. Already, the United States has passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — the most dramatic effort to jump-start job creation and lay a foundation for growth in a generation.”
(Presseerklärung, 23. März 2009)
2009
Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
New Definition of Wealth
"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. For the last five decades the pursuit of growth has been the single most important policy goal across the world. […] There is something odd about the modern refusal to countenance anything but growth at all costs."
(in: "Prosperity without growth", 2009)
2009
Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
Cultural Renewable
"Above all, there is an urgent need to develop a resilient and sustainable macro-economy that is no longer predicated on relentless consumption growth. The clearest message from the financial crisis of 2008 is that our current model of economic success is fundamentally flawed. For the advanced economies of the Western world, prosperity without growth is no longer a utopian dream. It is a financial and ecological necessity.”
(in: "Prosperity without growth", 2009)
2009
Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
Cultural Renewable
"A less growth-driven economy will improve people’s work-life balance. Enhanced investment in public goods will provide lasting returns to the nation’s prosperity.”
(in: "Prosperity without growth", 2009)
2006
Dennis L. Meadows, Universität New Hampshire
Limits of Growth
"We are on a treadmill that spins faster and faster but leads nowhere. In order to produce more and more physical goods, people, culture, and the environment have been degraded in ways that prevent them from offering the qualitative satisfactions they used to give.”
(Interview für EuroNatur, 22. Dezember 2006)
2006
Nicolas Stern, London School of Economics
Limits of Growth
"[Ignoring climate change] could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity […] on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars.”
("Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change", Oktober 2006)