The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

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.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

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.

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

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.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.