Reimagining development
We need low carbon development and we need to create food security, energy security, and robust, resilient systems that people will be able to provide for their needs, and provide for their families, and so on.
We need low carbon development and we need to create food security, energy security, and robust, resilient systems that people will be able to provide for their needs, and provide for their families, and so on.
Sociological instability will continue along with ecological change.
As long as we continue to be preoccupied with material consumption and economic growth that’s based upon material consumption then we’re just sort of pissing in the wind in terms of solving these problems.
…the foundation that needs to be laid, we have to do it right now in the struggle to say ‘no!’ and send a clear message about where we should go.
…people of my generation realize that they’ve been dealt a shitty hand and are probably reluctant to do that to the next generation unless they can really convince themselves that everything is okay.
I think the world is pregnant with dangers, to use an unfortunate metaphor, it’s pregnant, it’s full.
Maybe I am more confident that I’m going to see the end of the world in some sense than I actually am that I’m going to see the end of capitalism.