"Until now I believed that the nation which……" — George Monbiot
"Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works."
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30 Quotes by George Monbiot
George Monbiot has 30 quotes on this site.
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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon…
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his…
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Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the…
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Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning…
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for…
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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs…
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some…
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and…
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Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
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If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or…
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on…
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The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of…
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More Agreement Quotes
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also…
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,…
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,…
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