Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.