Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.
The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. . . . I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction. . much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
People would tell me sometimes that I should model, but I was like, I dont know!
As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.
My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could. '
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.