If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
George MonbiotDo we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
George MonbiotThe Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.
George MonbiotWe 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.
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