I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

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

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

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

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

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.