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1111 Billions quotes by 811 unique authors
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions,…
— Rowan Williams
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The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive…
— Bill Gates
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When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global…
— Unknown Author
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I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has…
— Michael Myers
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This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is…
— Frederick Seitz
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The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.
— Tony Juniper
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Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do…
— John Beddington
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When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You…
— Tony Blair
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According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California…
— Ann Coulter
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We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything…
— Jose Mujica
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According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer…
— Jacques Ellul
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It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the…
— Pope John Paul II
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In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a…
— Kofi Annan
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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven…
— Steven Chu
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Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
— Jim Hightower
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Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at…
— E. O. Wilson
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A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,…
— Robert Muller
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A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
— Carl Sagan
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War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the…
— Eric Pianka
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We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into…
— Sylvia Earle
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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one…
— Karl-Henrik Robert
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion…
— Calvin Coolidge
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To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth…
— Norman Cousins
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