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

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

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.

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

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.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.