The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.