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.

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

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

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

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

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

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.