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We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
 Graciela Chichilnisky

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.
 Graciela Chichilnisky
After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.
 Graciela Chichilnisky
The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and anger, and I hope we will reach acceptance because almost perversely, right now, only the US has the technology that is needed for global economic change.
 Graciela Chichilnisky
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.
 Graciela Chichilnisky
The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions can usher the satisfaction of basic needs of the present and of the future. This is what is needed right now.
 Graciela Chichilnisky