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

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

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.

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.

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

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