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

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.

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.

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

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.