In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.