Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

You must daily communicate with God.

Peace is a very powerful approach than war, choose peace when solving any problem in the world.

In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.