Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
George MonbiotThose who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.
George MonbiotDo we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
George MonbiotAlmost 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
George Monbiot