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

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.

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

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

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

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.