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

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

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

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