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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
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"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."
"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
"As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status."
"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency."
"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction."
"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"
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