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Climate Quotes by Nicholas Stern
- Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars…
- If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy…
- There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
- The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response
- Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades
- Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
- Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
- Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds…
- Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
- This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?
- How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly,…
- I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little…
- My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an…
- The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and…
- A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the…
- Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between…
- We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people…
- We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that…
- Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by…
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- Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to… — Rajneesh