I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run commercial entities are failing to give Americans the information they need to make informed choices. You look at the food we're eating and the obesity epidemic and realize there is something fundamentally wrong about our nutritional habits. So across the board there is something fundamentally unjust about every aspect of our personal lives.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.