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.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

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

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.

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.