Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.