Citas

"[...…]let the poor countries receive some financing to produce ethanol from corn or any other foodstuff and very soon not a single tree will be left standing to protect humanity from climate change.."
References to the original: More than Three Billion People in the World are being Condemned to a Premature Death from Hunger and Thirst, March 28, 2007
“The idea of global warming hanging over our species’ life like a sword of Damocles was not even known by the immense majority of the inhabitants of our planet thirty years ago; even today there is great ignorance and confusion about these issues”
References to the original: The tragedy threatening our species, May 7, 2007
The accelerated pace of scientific research in all fields of material production and services, under the economic order imposed on the world following World War II, has led humanity towards an unsustainable situation. 

It is our duty to demand the truth. The populations of all countries have the right to know the factors causing climate change and the current scientific possibilities to reverse the tendency, if indeed we still really have any.
References to the original: A species in danger of extinction
“Peoples must struggle to protect not just their economy, their rights; they must struggle to defend their very survival.  The environment is being swept away, it’s being destroyed.  Only one year ago, Mitch went through Central America with devastating results, and now we see pictures of colossal floods, a visible climatic change that nobody can deny any more.  Who does this hit before anybody else? The poorest countries, the countries of the Third World.”
References to the original: Speech at the event for the 50th anniversary for the founding of the Peoples’ Republic of China. .September 29, 1999.
“Today, the world is facing serious and pressing problems. The entire humanity is threatened by climate change. (...) The Third World countries are rightly claiming from the richest and most developed nations hundreds of billion dollars a year to pay for the climate battle”.
References to the original: The annexation of Colombia to the United States, November 6, 2009

“As a consequence of the climate change originated basically by the developed and wealthy countries, a shortage of fresh water and foods compatible with population growth at a pace that would lead to 9 billion inhabitants in a mere 30 years is being created, without the United Nations and the most influential governments on the planet, after the disappointing meeting at Copenhagen and Cancun warning and informing the world about that situation.”.

References to the original: The revolutionary rebellion in Egypt, February 13, 2011

"Wastage and the capitalist consumer societies in their neo-liberal and imperialist phase are taking the world into a blind alley, where climatic change and the growing cost of foods lead billions of people towards more acute poverty levels".

References to the original: The disasters threatening the world, March 14, 2011