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

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.

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.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

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.

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

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.