#climate

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

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Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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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 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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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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