Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

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

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.

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.

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