The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.
George MonbiotAll the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.
George MonbiotDevelopment which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.
George MonbiotSoil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.
George Monbiot