Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.