118 Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

To bring our human population in line with the biocapacity of the planet and transform our society from scarcity to sustainable abundance, we will need to address the great disparity in ecological footprint between the rich and poor, while simultaneously lowering the overall human population on Earth.

The fact is, we know that with traditional foods, 8 percent of children and 2 percent of adults have allergenic reaction to traditional foods.

The real issue here is why are some people becoming ill and even dying after they are subjected to gene therapy. Until we get the answer to that question, we ought to have at least a partial moratorium on some of these experiments.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Who in this room is considering hydrogen fuel cell powered boats?

When you introduce a genetically modified organism into the environment, it's not like introducing a chemical product, or even a nuclear product.

When you do classical breeding, you cluster for hundreds of genes in a plant that allow it to be resistant to a particular insect.

The other major problem with introducing GMOs is gene flow. This is as significant as buildup of resistance, probably more significant.