Global Warming Quotes - Page 14

• And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?

  Deborah Feyerick

  Fall, Sky, Way

  "CNN Newsroom" with Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  Talulah Riley

  Thinking, Issues, Population

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

  Stephen Colbert

  Real, News, World

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2014

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• A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Order, Climate, World

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• It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.

  Maurice Strong

  Attitude, Responsibility, Light

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• There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

  John Holdren

  Law, Abortion, Growth

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• For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

  Susan Blackmore

  Bird, Population, Flu

  "We've got all the space in the world" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2009.

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• The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Vaccines, People

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• When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  People, Earth, Imagine

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• There are probably already too many people on the planet.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Climate Change, Planets

  "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

  Al Gore

  Children, Cutting, Growth

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• Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example...

  Susan Blackmore

  People, Work Out, Musician

  "Survival of the selfish" by Sue Blackmore, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2006.

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• We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

  David Foreman

  May, Extinction, Sake

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• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  Eric Pianka

  Real, Technology, Men

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• Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

  Bill Maher

  Mass Destruction, Order, Oil

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 24, 2006.

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• Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life.

  Robert Muller

  Prayer, Book, Oneness

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• I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Community, Foundation, Earth

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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 environmental governance.

  Lester R. Brown

  Community, Environmental, Climate Change

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• The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to - compliance

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Real, Independent, World Government

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• A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

  John Holdren

  Mean, Reality, America

  "White House Science Czar Says He Would Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop the United States’" by Nicholas Ballasy, www.cnsnews.com. September 16, 2010.

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• A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Voice, Climate Change

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• 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 economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Simple, Kyoto Protocol, Issues

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• For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

  Jacques Chirac

  Kyoto Protocol, Humanity, Acting

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Would Be, Phases

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• I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

  James Lovelock

  War, Issues, Feelings

  Interview with The Guardian, March 29, 2010.

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