You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.