Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create huge cornfields with the same strain of corn so that when one disease strikes - which happened in the United States in the 70s - all the cornfields in the country are wiped out. That was the first time the U.S. realized the value of diversity in agriculture and began to discuss genetic resources and their conservation.

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

When you control seed, you control food.

The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates a situation where common practices that have been part of people's lives for generations become monopolies of a handful of pharmaceutical, agribusiness and agrichemical corporations. People then become incapable of looking after their own needs.