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

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.