I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.

If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.

We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.