We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

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.

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?