The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.
George MonbiotWar and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.
George MonbiotWe 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.
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