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

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.

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.

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