Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a….

Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. J….

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oi….

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, o….

America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow..

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do..

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up..

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature..

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine..