Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

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.

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

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

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

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.