As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the tragedy of when they fail, because we are dealing with life systems, and when we hear that a species has become extinct, or is threatened, you realize that this could mean that this species will disappear from the face of the earth forever! So that understanding really gives you energy to do something to save it.

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.