I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.