How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You can be insured for almost anything if you pay enough for the premium, but if the insurance industry isn't willing to bet its money on the safety of [biotechnology], it means the risks are simply too high or too uncertain for them to take the gamble.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.