Occupation: Writer Birth: January 27, 1963
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the mon….
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinit….
All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom..
Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware..
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground..
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters..
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rul….
So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be beca….
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government..
The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected ou….
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes again….
Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?.
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and ca….
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad..
Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also be….
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians..
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a c….
Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it….
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their cop….
Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to suppor….
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope..