To a growing degree, it is not governments, but rather quite different forces that decide the fate of humankind.

I am a provocative pessimist and my point of departure is that politicians and decision-makers must be made to give serious consideration to the consequences of development and make a real effort to change the...

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn’t complain about the downsides that exist, either.

That thing that is sometimes called the responsibility of intellectuals is the responsibility of every decent person.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.