I’m a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there’s a great deal of work, and I won’t see the end of this.

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.

Only around 2% of the earth’s surface is cultivatable land.

We’re trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

The question is not only what is grown but what it’s used for. There’s not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We’ve seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

There’s people coming in who’ve never done any politics at all, who’ve never been in a trade union, they’ve never been in a political party, they’ve never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can’t even measure yet.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It’s tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn’t tell us the things that we need to know.