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A revolution in humanity’s use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.
- Ross Garnaut. June 2008 -
Ever since the Russians cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine in early 2006, energy security has been high on the EU agenda.
- Anders Wijkman. MEP, Vice President of The Club of Rome, Member of The World Future Council, Former Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP. November 2007
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All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.
- Barack Obama. April 2006 - ‹ First < 2 3 4