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

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

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

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

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.