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.

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

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.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

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.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

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