鈥淭he rest of the world has to stand up to the axis of environmental evil that is the US backed by Canada and Australia.鈥�
Tony Juniper, vice-chair of Friends of the Earth International, at the World Summit in Joburg (29 August)
鈥淐astro, Gaddafi, Mugabe and Blair. There goes the neighbourhood.鈥�
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鈥淗ow much faster things would happen if delegates were given a tin bucket of grimy water, purification tablets and no electricity.鈥�
Correspondent Jenny Ridyard (The Citizen, Joburg, 26 August)
鈥淲e want global environmental standards for corporations, with sanctions that include dissolving the companies. Sending CEOs to prison is not enough.鈥�
Michael Dorsey, a director of US environmental group the Sierra Club (28 August)
鈥淚t is probably the most unintelligible paragraph ever written by human beings.鈥�
A disgruntled environmentalist on paragraph 19(e) of the World Summit鈥檚 draft plan (BBC Online, 27 August)
鈥淎nyone engaged in this kind of thing must sometimes wonder whether it is worth carrying on living.鈥�
Andy Atkins, policy adviser to the charity Tearfund (31 August)
鈥淭he US is the world鈥檚 leader in sustainable development. No nation has done more.鈥�
US delegation spokeswoman (29 August)