"The farming land and the drinking water will be considerably reduced. The oceans will be contaminated and many marine species will no longer be edible while others will be extinct. This is not simply a logical assertion but the result of scientific research."
“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.”
“It is worthwhile indicating that the main responsibility for the brutal destruction of the environment lies with the consumer societies. They are the offspring of the old colonial metropolises and of imperialist policies that also begot the poverty and backwardness which are today the scourge of the overwhelming majority of humanity.”
"Let the ecologic debt be paid and not the foreign debt. Let hunger disappear and not man."