"The world is facing so many political, military, energy, food and environmental problems that there is no country wanting the United States to return to extremist positions that would increase the risks of nuclear war."
In the face of climate changes, environmental damage caused by other factors, economic crises, epidemics and hurricanes, our material, scientific and technical resources are ever more abundant. The protection of our people will always take first place in our efforts. There could be no higher priority.
"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.”
“We should proclaim with all of our energies that we have the right to breath pure air, to drink uncontaminated water, to feed ourselves with healthy food….we have the right to be educated, to receive medical assistance, to be less poor when others are ever richer.”
"Let the ecologic debt be paid and not the foreign debt. Let hunger disappear and not man."