Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

I am the government.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.