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.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

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.

Subsidize... or lend.

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.