The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

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

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

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

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.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.