Never in our history has our society had so much money. We produce more goods and services than ever before. Yet it is providing less and less for the most vulnerable people. And we are told we can't afford to do better. Yet debates in parliament focus on how we can achieve more consumption rather than a better quality of life for us and our children's children.
Scarcity is the shadow of greed.
You'll notice that up till now I haven't mentioned the environment. And that was deliberate. Perhaps the greatest handicap the Greens have in being taken seriously is the perception that we are only on about the environment. But even if you were only on about the environment, if you want to develop strategies for saving the planet you had better start with economics. The failure to combine ecology and economics is eventually the death of both.