Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.