"The first and most important impact of climate……" — Gwynne Dyer
"The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it."
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12 Quotes by Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer has 12 quotes on this site.
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were…
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As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen…
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The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is…
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The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will…
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But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back,…
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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning…
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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an…
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There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail…
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Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in…
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Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to…
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It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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