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As Human Beings We Suffer From An Innate Tendency To Jump To Conclusions; To Judge People Too Quickly And To Pronounce Them Failures Or Heroes Without Due Consideration Of The Actual Facts And Ideals Of The Period.

There Is No Doubt That We Live In An Age Of Unprecedented, And Sometimes Terrifying, Technological Advance Where The Speed Of Advance So Often Outstrips The Necessary Ethical Considerations.

We Have Spent The Best Part Of The Past Century Enthusiastically Testing The World To Utter Destruction; Not Looking Closely Enough At The Long-term Impact Our Actions Will Have.

I Think We're Going To Find, With Climate Change And Everything Else, Things Like Global Warming And Goodness Knows What Else And The Cost Of Fuel For A Start, That Things Are Going To Become Very Complicated.

Forests ... Are In Fact The World's Air-conditioning System-the Very Lungs Of The Planet-and Help To Store The Largest Body Of Freshwater On The Planet ... Essential To Produce Food For Our Planet's Growing Population. The Rainforests Of The World Also Provide The Livelihoods Of More Than A Billion Of The Poorest People On This Earth... In Simple Terms, The Rainforests, Which Encircle The World, Are Our Very Life-support System-and We Are On The Verge Of Switching It Off.