There are perfectly good independent small nations.

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.