"There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!"
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"There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help."
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"President Trump is boldly moving in what I would call rather extreme directions. And that is going to set into motion a reaction, and it already has... He builds the strength on the other side to combat climate change."
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"There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate."
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"Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it."
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"We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation."
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"But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America."
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"We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation."
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"It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear."
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"Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby."
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"The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse."
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"Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming."
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"Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others."
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"This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system."
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"There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it."
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"Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim."
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"Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people."
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"I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us."
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"I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations."
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"Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe."
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