The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.