Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
Helen ClarkRead
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Unregulated markets can exacerbate social injustices and increase community suffering.
Helen Clark highlights the dangers of leaving markets to operate without oversight. She argues that this neglect can lead to worsening social injustices and greater suffering within communities, illustrating the need for regulation and intervention to protect vulnerable populations.
Themes
MarketSocial InjusticeCommunityNeglectSuffering
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting discussing economic policies, this quote can emphasize the need for regulation.
More from Helen Clark
All quotes →Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
Helen ClarkRead
Similar quotes
In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can only be in this space if you transcend your blackness by showing us some green dollars. Even then, there is no guarantee that green will transcend your black skin.
Anthea ButlerRead
There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.
Mazie HironoRead
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
Angela DavisRead
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?
Michel'LeRead
There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.
Alicia GarzaRead
You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not respecting what they're saying, if you're not believing their charges of police brutality or racial inequality, you're saying that they're lying.
Megan RapinoeRead