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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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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
— Lester R. Brown
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Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that…
— Don Aitkin
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Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
— David Suzuki
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or…
— Nicholas Stern
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts…
— Amy Goodman
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At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you…
— Bill McKibben
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for…
— Leon Panetta
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Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -…
— Mark Steyn
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We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward…
— Grant Morrison
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What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And…
— Ban Ki-moon
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