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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…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
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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.…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
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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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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
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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
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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
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The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global…
— Al Gore
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The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be…
— John Beddington
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Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to…
— John Beddington
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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.…
— Lester R. Brown
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put…
— Carl Sagan
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When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall…
— Robert Mugabe
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Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and…
— Ursula Goodenough
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