There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
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.
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.
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.
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.