Peter Joseph Quotes
Best 6 The New Human Rights Movement Quotes by Peter Joseph
The New Human Rights Movement Quotes
“I doubt many reading this would decide to re-plaster a ceiling that keeps leaking every time it rains, knowing the real leak is on the roof of the building. Yet our localized view of the human condition is still plastering away. To stop the leak, we need to seek out and resolve root causes that continue to lead to social oppression, ecological disregard, and other influences that reduce human well-being. It has only been in the modern age that sociological research has provided powerful evidence of what’s needed to resolve these problems. These new frameworks or models for understanding society must be applied if we expect to see true social progress.”
“If you think about it, you will discover an interesting paradox to market logic: the fact that capitalism is a scarcity-based economic system that actually seeks infinite consumption. In other words, it favors a threshold of goods scarcity to secure competitive profits, theorized as a model to properly manage scarcity, optimizing resource use and distribution. Yet, at the same time, the system demands more and more human dissatisfaction and 'want' in order to function and grow. It rewards consumption, with no inherent incentive to conserve anything.”
“Only 20 percent of the world’s wealthier population consumes a massive 80 percent of the world’s goods.”
“The market economy is based on cyclical consumption and it really doesn’t matter what is being produced, how it is being produced, or why. If demand or production slows, so too does the movement of money, and when this happens, the economy contracts, systemically reducing the standard of living for many. Ecologically, this means capitalism is structurally oblivious to humanity’s existence on a finite planet. The system wants to produce, not conserve.”
“The rise of automation breaks the need for human commodification and dehumanization, assuming we adjust accordingly to remove labor-for-income as a universal economic requirement.”
“The United States, which is home to 5 percent of the world’s population, consumes 25 percent of the world’s energy production and 50 percent of the world’s production of raw materials, and produces 40 percent of the world’s waste.”
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