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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…

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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all…
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations…

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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a… — Will Carleton
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. — Dwight Morrow
Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be… — Susan Hill
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no… — Barack Obama
You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the… — Nicholas Stern
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben
Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end… — Grigory Zinoviev

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