We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

The issue of climate change, it really does bring home the fact that we are on one planet, and that some of the impact of what human beings do in one corner of the world is going to affect people in a distant corner of the world. So we may still feel very far from each other, but we are really very close to each other because of the changes we have made with travel and technology and especially the information technology.

I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I knew that the people who were going against me were not going against me for a good purpose. I knew that they were trying to justify their corruption and misgovernance.

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

Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.