It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.

We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could even have a blood transfusion from a chimp, provided you have the same blood group.