The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.