Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.