Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. -Colin Powell
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
If kindness and comfort are, as I suspect, the results of an energy surplus, then, as the supply contracts, we could be expected to start fighting once again like cats in a sack. -George Monbiot