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.

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.

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

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

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

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.