When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from….
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scar….
I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't want to consider the injustices around me. I ….
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition..
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous..
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence..
The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people..
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part o….
We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a mat….
I am haunted by waters..
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, envir….
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos..
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll nev….
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us..
We must return to nature and nature's god..
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures o….
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and envir….
A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't ….
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything m….
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should….
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the othe….