The Grand Jury's Job Is Not To

I Call The Transformed World Toward Which We Can Move ‘sustainable,’ By Which I Mean A Great Deal More Than A World That Merely Sustains Itself Unchanged. I Mean A World That Evolves, As Life On Earth Has Evolved For Three Billion Years, Toward Ever Greater Diversity, Elegance, Beauty, Self-awareness, Interrelationship, And Spiritual Realization.

The First Commandment Of Economics Is: Grow. Grow Forever. Companies Get Bigger. National Economies Need To Swell By A Certain Percent Each Year. People Should Want More, Make More, Earn More, Spend More - Ever More. The First Commandment Of The Earth Is: Enough. Just So Much And No More. Just So Much Soil. Just So Much Water. Just So Much Sunshine. Everything Born Of The Earth Grows To Its Appropriate Size And Then Stops.

The European Nations Take Climate Change Very Seriously.

You Should Issue Demerits For Tree Cutting Or The Destruction Of Humus.

We Can't Control Systems Or Figure Them Out. But We Can Dance With Them!