All The Time I Feel I Must

My Rainforests Project ... Has Three Main Elements. Firstly, To Determine How Much Funding The Rainforest Countries Need To Re-orientate Their Economies So That The Trees Are Worth More Alive Than Dead.

I Think It's Something That Dawns On You With The Most Ghastly, Inexorable Sense. I Didn't Suddenly Wake Up In My Pram One Day And Say 'yippee, I - ', You Know. But I Think It Just Dawns On You, You Know, Slowly, That People Are Interested In One, And Slowly You Get The Idea That You Have A Certain Duty And Responsibility.

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.

What I Have Been Trying To Remind People Of For The Past 40 Years Is That You Can’t Operate An Entire Conventional System, Whether It’s Economics, Business Or The Way We Live And Surround Ourselves, What We Eat, Without Recognizing That There Are Severe Negative Externalities That Are Not Being Accounted For.

I Was Totally Absorbed. I Was In Another World, Or Another Dimension; All Sense Of Time Evaporated.