Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions even though in Finnish society we are not facing the most urgent problems.

I wanted to help raise awareness so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

So to hope to be able to have peace to be able to have justice and environmental balance are consequences of our behavior not just our intentions.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

But as environment minister I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.