Boy, the things I do for England.

The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

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