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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earths treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. – Vivienne Westwood

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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great. – Vivienne Westwood

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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. – Vivienne Westwood

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