More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.

Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.