#climate change

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. ↗

— Amy Goodman

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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

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As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. ↗

— William Hague

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I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. ↗

— William Hague

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Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. ↗

— Bill Gates

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What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet. ↗

— Susan George

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Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference? ↗

— Frank Luntz

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Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change. ↗

— David Miliband

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The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim. ↗

— David Miliband

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Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

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