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

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.

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 real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

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.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.