Barbara Stocking quotes
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“Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.”
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“Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .”
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“Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992,”
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“There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.”
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Source : Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.
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“Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”
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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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