Quotes from Ma Jun

One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.