Economy as a Subsidiary of the Environment

From an interview originally appearing in Le Monde with Jacqueline McGlade, a British scientist and director of the European Environment Agency (EEA):

The economy must be thought of as a 100 percent subsidiary of the environment and the price we attribute to things re-evaluated. If we take into account the true cost of the water and carburants necessary to the manufacture and transport of goods, we will note that moving them around the world - and even within Europe - as we do, is very expensive.

This view is in keeping with the ecological economics advocated by such thinkers as Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben.