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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 a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries…
— Sheryl Crow
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Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her…
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At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many…
— Catherine Bertini
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24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people…
— Dikembe Mutombo
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Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage.…
— Lester R. Brown
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The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that…
— Walden Bello
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that…
— Gloria Steinem
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I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is…
— Natalie Jeremijenko
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In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique…
— Adam Richman
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