It Seems To Me Self-evident

Forests Are The World's Air-conditioning System-the Lungs Of The Planet-and We Are On The Verge Of Switching It Off.

Some Recent Occurrences Such As The Bse Disaster And Even Perhaps - Dare I Mention It - The Present Severe Weather Conditions In Our Country Are, I Have No Doubt, The Consequences Of Mankind's Arrogant Disregard Of The Delicate Balance Of Nature. We Have To Find A Way Of Ensuring That Our Remarkable And Seemingly Beneficial Advances In Technology Do Not Just Become The Agents Of Our Own Destruction.

It Seems To Me Self-evident That We Cannot Have Capitalism Without Capital And, Very Importantly, That The Ultimate Source Of All Economic Capital Is Nature's Capital

It Is Vitally Important That We Can Continue To Say, With Absolute Conviction, That Organic Farming Delivers The Highest Quality, Best-tasting Food, Produced Without Artificial Chemicals Or Genetic Modification, And With Respect For Animal Welfare And The Environment, While Helping To Maintain The Landscape And Rural Communities.

What I Have Been Trying To Remind People Of For The Past 40 Years Is That You Can’t Operate An Entire Conventional System, Whether It’s Economics, Business Or The Way We Live And Surround Ourselves, What We Eat, Without Recognizing That There Are Severe Negative Externalities That Are Not Being Accounted For.