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.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

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

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 World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

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

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