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

We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

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.

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

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

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

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.