"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If……" — Al Gore

"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making."

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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of… — Louis D. Brandeis
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. — Camille Paglia
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before… — Henry Ward Beecher
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of… — Felix Frankfurter
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science,… — Paul Krugman
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles,… — Kumi Naidoo
There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster.… — Tony Blair
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes… — Elizabeth Moon
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And… — Robert Olen Butler
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best. — David Chalmers
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport… — Kumi Naidoo
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. — Hafez

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