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Lester R. Brown has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
— Lester R. Brown
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I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after…
— Karl Kraus
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However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will…
— Valentino Rossi
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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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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no…
— Patricia Marx
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And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and…
— Berenice Marlohe
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with…
— J. G. Ballard
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Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline…
— Paul Oakenfold
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude.…
— David Stern
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Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my…
— Hu Shih
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I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,'…
— Eliza Coupe
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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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