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

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

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.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

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.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.