Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!