Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

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

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 World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

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

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