David McWilliams

And we know what happened.

The crop failed.

Likewise, if you look at the Irish corporation tax and you say, oh my God, they've got

30 billion coming from the Americans.

It's a sign of success.

No, it's a sign of dependency on the monoculture that is this industrial model.

What you want in economics as you want in ecology is you want diverse...

Flora, diverse animals, diverse plants.

The more diversity, the more resilient.

So if one plant goes, you can replace another one.

You want...

Loads of companies doing loads of different things, employing loads of different people at different skill levels, producing loads of different products.

That is biodiversity in the economic realm.

A country like Denmark has that.

We don't have that.

And the risk is that we end up being far too dependent, not just for money, but for economic headspace on multinationals.

It's like a fat person taking a Zempik.

They look good, right?

Okay?

But you know, if they stop taking the Zempik, they're going to bloat out again.