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

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

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

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.