Christiana Figueres Quotes

I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

Christiana Figueres

• People
• Streets
• Climate
• Voices
• Raising

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  

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• Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

  

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• I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • People
  • Streets
  • Climate