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

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

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.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

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.

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

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.