Penny

England

I have been privileged in my life to witness some of the most inspiring and beautiful sights the natural World has to offer; the mighty Amazon river; the dances of birth, life and death on the coral reefs; oceans of perfumed bluebell flowers stretching from horizon to horizon beneath the waking woodlands of spring in my native home England.

Sadly, I have also borne witness to some of the worst that humanity has to throw at the Earth; destruction driven by arrogance, greed and indifference; poverty; needless suffering and death.

Whereas aboriginal cultures have been living as part of the natural system for millennia, we, in the developed, or so call “civilized” countries, have in a short space of time done inestimable damage to the world which sustains us. It cannot continue.

Our only hope is to reach deep into our hearts for the altruism within and to work towards a future where we neither abuse each other nor the Earth we inhabit.

With the World Summit on sustainable development, we have a chance to make a real difference. For all our futures, please, this time let’s take it.

- Penny