Andrew Simms Quotes

United States, Author
1965

Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation.

Also known as Analyst

It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay.

Andrew Simms
- Value
- Export
- Import
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming.

Andrew Simms
- Century
- Global
- Warming

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

Andrew Simms
- Growth
- Resources
- Finite
Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system.

Andrew Simms
- Use
- Resources
- Investing
Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

Andrew Simms
- Future
- Economic
- Exchange