If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.