We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

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

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

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

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.