Now, over the last few decades, as the various global crises have been accumulating — climate change, the threat of nuclear war as well as the dangers of nuclear energy, the uncontrollability of the global financial system, and so on — we now hear people saying things like: Look at what humanity has done. Now suddenly the subject is humanity, whereas originally, Euro-Americans had claimed: Look at the stunning achievements of the West.
Interview by Hasan Azad, The Islamic Monthly, October 21, 2015