The preceding generations have done much that is good but also much that will have to be undone – both within each country and in the international community. Like you, I feel that politicians and governments are too slow in taking urgently needed decisions. But I urge you [children] to seek to effect change only through democratic means. Never resort to force.

We need a new system of values, a system of organic unity between mankind and nature and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.