Kun ihmisille tarjotaan taloudellista kannustinta, he kysyvät “mitä minä tästä saan”, eivätkä enää halua tehdä työtään siksi, että saavat tyydytystä työstään ja ovat ylpeitä siitä, mitä ovat saaneet aikaan.

Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for ‘disrupting’ a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. This is his statement:

“It’s going to have huge resonance around the world,” Barlow said of the campaign. “It’s going to start first with these southern countries trying to protect their land and their people from exploitation, but I think it will be grabbed onto by communities in our countries, for example, fighting the tarsands in Alberta.”