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The climate continues to deteriorate.

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Environmentalism has failed.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.