Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the countryโs most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.
George MonbiotDo we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
George MonbiotWar and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.
George Monbiot