“Global actions require local and national participation. International...” — Ian Goldin Quote

“Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.”

“In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.”

“I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.”

“People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.”

“Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.”

“Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.”

“Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.”

“Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.”

“The only way you can know someone is through their actions - you can never know what's going on inside them.”

“The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.”

“Any president's actions have real consequences in real people's lives.”