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

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

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

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

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.