You
accept the world as it is, and find the best way of maximizing your fortunes as
a society, or you are left behind by the relentless pace of change found
everywhere else. The world cannot possibly stop spinning for your sake.———Global Economy: What Next?
While
it may be true that technological advances can improve our capacity for food
production and our ability to house more people in compact spaces, at some
point we will surely reach a limit. The earth can only hold so many people
without serious damage to our habitat and to biodiversity. How do we put a stop
to the relentless growth? The key, in my view, lies in educating women – which
causes them to want fewer children. The sooner we are able to do this, the
sooner we will have a less populated world.———Energy and Climate Change: Preparing for the Worst
[I]t
may be wiser for countries to devote time and energy to bracing themselves for
the human catastrophe that would probably hit us in a matter of decades,
instead of getting others to cut emissions.———Energy and Climate Change: Preparing for the Worst
Eliminating
subsidies – and, indeed, possibly even taxing fuel use to reflect its true
costs to the rest of society – would therefore be the right thing to do both
economically and for the sake of the environment.———Energy and Climate Change: Preparing for the Worst
Until
[global warming] hits you, it is merely a theoretical problem.———Energy and Climate Change: Preparing for the
Worst
Is
heaven such a large and limitless space that you can keep all the peoples of
the world over the thousands of years past? I have a large question mark on
that.———Personal Life: Choosing When to
Go
A
politician just wants to publicise himself and get into office, and he enjoys
the pride of being there. A leader has a mission. You seek power because you
want to do certain things. A statesman is one who has not only sought power and
done those things but is able to hand over to a good successor.———Conversations with an Old Friend