There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.