Nicholas Herbert Stern Quotes
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Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.
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Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.
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Give up meat to save the planet.
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Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
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Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades.
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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
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I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
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My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
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There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.