Steve Hallett

"To find our steady state and solve the sustainability puzzle, we need to abandon the relentless quest for dominance. We need to abandon our visions of progress as growth... Only progress in diversity,…"

"We seem to have quite a few problems: global climate change, peak oil, overpopulation, collapsing fisheries, desertification, wealth inequality, species extinctions, freshwater shortages, hapless gove…"

"Millions are going to die of starvation and malnutrition... Food production will decline and food prices will rise when diesel and fertilizer become prohibitively expensive. The disastrous depletion o…"

"The tragedy of the commons, explained by Garrett Hardin... shows how nonfunctional communities can rapidly destroy their own resource base. ...how good, rational people can form destructive communitie…"

"You can feed a family on a quarter-acre lot if it comes down to it."

"We should stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industries and instead provide subsidies for local and community energy projects."

"Cellular systems, ecosystems, and civilizations are, at base, thermodynamic systems. ...The system uses energy, eventually releasing it as useless heat. ...there is one vital difference between natura…"

"I find it hard to listen to fervent Republicans. Put the combined wisdom and honesty of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and a dozen others on the back of a postcard with a thick marker pen…"