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.

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.

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

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

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

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.