There's Nothing Like A Jolly Good Disaster

Scientists Themselves Readily Admit That They Do Not Fully Understand The Consequences Of Our Many-faceted Assault Upon The Interwoven Fabric Of Atmosphere, Water, Land And Life In All Its Biological Diversity. But Things Could Also Turn Out To Be Worse Than The Current Scientific Best Guess. In Military Affairs, Policy Has Long Been Based On The Dictum That We Should Be Prepared For The Worst Case. Why Should It Be So Different When The Security Is That Of The Planet And Our Long-term Future?

Forests ... Are In Fact The World's Air-conditioning System-the Very Lungs Of The Planet-and Help To Store The Largest Body Of Freshwater On The Planet ... Essential To Produce Food For Our Planet's Growing Population. The Rainforests Of The World Also Provide The Livelihoods Of More Than A Billion Of The Poorest People On This Earth... In Simple Terms, The Rainforests, Which Encircle The World, Are Our Very Life-support System-and We Are On The Verge Of Switching It Off.

Something As Curious As The Monarchy Won't Survive Unless You Take Account Of People's Attitudes. After All, If People Don't Want It, They Won't Have It.

To Avert Disaster, We Have Not Only To Teach Men To Make Things But To Teach Them To Have Complete Moral Control Over What They Make.

It Seems To Me Self-evident That We Cannot Have Capitalism Without Capital And, Very Importantly, That The Ultimate Source Of All Economic Capital Is Nature's Capital