“Over the last few years, researchers from across the world have noticed that we’re using soil up faster than it’s regenerating — and the most dire predictions say that we could have fewer than 60 years left — that’s 60 harvests — before we run out of soil.”

“When you talk about crime as a ‘beast,’ or when you talk about it as a ‘virus’ [it] leads people to really different assumptions about what should be done about crime.”

“Coffee, vegetables, meat, like you want to buy local apples, you want to get meat that was raised and killed humanely. [People] don’t extend those values to spices.”