"The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process."
"Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe."
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Source: Laurent Fignon (2010). “We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon”, p.58, Random House
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