Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

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

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

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

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

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