Avoiding Quote by Bill Gates

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country,…

— Bill Gates

We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear…

— Bill Gates

If we've learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it's the importance of planning ahead.

— Ned Lamont

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

— Margaret Chan

If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy…

— Nathan Wolfe

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe…

— Margaret Chan

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not…

— Bill Gates

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making…

— Jackie Speier

For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the…

— Ban Ki-moon

The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.

— Brett Kavanaugh

If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing…

— Rick Bright

“As even the Pentagon, a cautious bastion of technological nonpartisanship, concluded, “the danger from climate change is real, urgent, and severe.” An official U.S.…

— Jane Mayer