“Internet space in our country has become the wall of a public toilet.”
Hong Joon-pyo of South Korea’s governing Grand National party, during a government crackdown on cyberspace slander and bullying (The New York Times, 12 October)
“Rainforests [are] like a giant global utility right now, like a water utility or a power station, that’s providing a service we’re not paying for.”
Global Canopy Programme director Andrew Mitchell, supporting a proposed multibillion-pound fund to pay the owners of the world’s rainforests not to cut them down (The Guardian, London, 14 October)
“I feel I have let everybody down. I have done so much, yet still done…
