The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.