I resemble the father I once hated.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.

Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.

When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.