We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.