Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

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.

The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

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.

People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.