Hans-Peter Dürr
(1929-)

German Physicist, Social Activist
1987 Right Livelihood Award
World Future Council

birthdate: October 7
birthplace:
Stuttgart, German

QUOTES

"Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes... It is high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are threatening all of us - in fact, life on this planet."

This is not an Either/Or World. This is an As Well world.

"I want to create lifestyles that are very beautiful. You can have everything you really want without stepping over this limit. I don't want it enforced absolutely. But for people to have it in their mind that if they use more, someone will have to get less."

"Competition originally meant to seek together for solutions. We are more or less in a race with a winner and a loser."

" We crack one natural safe after another and take out its natural wealth. We call it wealth creation because we spent less money on the equipment than we spent on the safe that we cracked open. This is not a sustainable economy."

"We must include in our economic calculations that the Earth is finite"

"Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment."

 

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