What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now..

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing coun….

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology..

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that curre….

Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders..

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decid….

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of ….

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an im….

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously..

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm….

The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield on….

We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved..

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments..

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past….

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance acc….

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary….

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and fol….

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns..

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and conve….