It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

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

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

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

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

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.