Almost 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

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

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

Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

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

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

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