The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

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

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. I’ve seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.