If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial ci… - Maurice Strong

Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.

“We are victims of ‘the struggle between ecosystems and egosystems’. It is the egos of people, governments, businesses that prevent solutions and generate a terrible lack of political will.” (2005)

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.