People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

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.

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

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

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.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.