We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.