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

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

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.

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

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.