Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a goal that can be compromised. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground