What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can’t even measure yet.
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
How do we get democracy at the international level? That’s our problem. and it’s essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
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 it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
There are a lot of people who don’t contribute anything to consumption and production.
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.
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We’ve seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
Only around 2% of the earth’s surface is cultivatable land.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
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.