I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.