If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

You'll find people where their conditions aren't changing in any way, its rather rare for them to be happy.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.