I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.