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

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

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.