If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

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.

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.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

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

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.

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.