Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

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.

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

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

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 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.