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Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions… — Paul Krugman
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the… — Ben Bernanke
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. — John McCain
If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might… — Stephen Hawking
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the… — Margot Wallstrom
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. — Tony Blair
We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of… — John McCain
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of… — Pope John Paul II
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that… — Carl Zimmer
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing… — Al Gore
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response — Nicholas Stern
Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the… — Unknown Author
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on… — Albert Einstein
It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks… — Martin Rees
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a… — John Hodgman
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
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
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge… — Teresa of Avila
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a… — Albert Einstein
That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be… — Pope Gregory XVI
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. — Saint Augustine
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. — John Fowles
Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the… — David Suzuki

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