Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

We're putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm.

Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent. It is fearful that there are still large numbers of people dreaming the 'American dream', hoping to consume like the Americans.

Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent.

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

The transition from a world of expanding oil to one of shrinking oil will be a shift of seismic proportions. Oil prices may climb higher than any we can readily imagine.

The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the economic system begins to unravel.

The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world energy supply, but also the climate.