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

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

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

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

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.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

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.