Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.