Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that...

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that...

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not....

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not....

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How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially...

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What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we...

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The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not...

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Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

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The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it...

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Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets,...

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

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What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive,...

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What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives,...

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As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to...

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Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only...

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

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Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and...

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We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national...

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control...

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control...

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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to...