I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.