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

Subsidize... or lend.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

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

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.