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

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

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.

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

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.