By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

Short accounts make long friends.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Every voter became Narendra Modi.