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“Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.”

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Jean Ziegler

Jean Ziegler is a Swiss professor renowned for his contributions to the fields of human rights and international law. more

“We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.”

“The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.”

World Use Century Climate Change Fuel 21st Century 20th Century Fossils Fossil Fuel

Author:Lester R. Brown

“Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.”

Ends Energy Modern Products Civilization Climate Change Hangover Binge Modern Civilization

Author:Alfred W. Crosby

“The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.”

Feels Fields Strange Grew Climate Change Bones Bread Spots Thee

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.”

Has Beens Lasts Half Economy Century Climate Change Evolve Junk Aberration

Book:Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

“Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.”

Standards Climate Change Population Crash Explosions Procedures Population Explosion Standard Operating Procedures

Author:Alfred W. Crosby

“Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.”

Ifs Knows Mind Water Levels Cities Millions Growing Sea Feet Civilization Rivers Chaos Climate Change Metaphor Ice Saving Rising Abandoned Refuge Sheets Asia Rice Coastal Delta Greenland

Author:Lester R. Brown

“If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential, I think it should be the issue of water.”

Ifs Thinking Should Water Issues Essentials Areas Climate Change Crucial Equity

Author:Kofi Annan

“In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.”

“The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.”

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Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

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