The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.
Copy QuoteNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Copy Quote View & ShareSooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Copy Quote View & ShareWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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