You Cannot Protect The Environment Unless You

When I First Started, It Was Really An Innocent Response To The Needs Of Women In Rural Areas. When We Started Planting Trees To Meet Their Needs, There Was Nothing Beyond That. I Did Not See All The Issues That I Have To Come To Deal With.

Recognizing That Sustainable Development, Democracy And Peace Are Indivisible Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come... Today We Are Faced With A Challenge That Calls For A Shift In Our Thinking, So That Humanity Stops Threatening Its Life-support System. We Are Called To Assist The Earth To Heal Her Wounds And In The Process Heal Our Own - Indeed, To Embrace The Whole Of Creation In All Its Diversity, Beauty And Wonder.

An Individual Citizen Cannot Protect Himself From The Powers Of Large Corporations Or External Governments. It Is The Responsibility Of The Government To Protect Its Citizens.

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.

Passion Begins With A Burden And A Split-second Moment, When You Understand Something Like Never Before. That Burden Is On Those Who Know. Those Who Don't Know Are At Peace. Those Of Us Who Do Know Get Disturbed And Are Forced To Take Action.