War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

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

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

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.

So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality