If you want the future generations to live in peace, we must invest in the protection of the environment and we must train especially our young people so that they don't think, for example, the whole world is like Japan.

When you have the environment degraded, it is always so that we are going to fight over the few resources that are left.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty, ... While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.