“The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps” HalfResponsibilityStepsReadyOvercomingCrisisDebateMutualTaking Responsibility Author:Yevgeny Primakov
“The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.” IfsWorldShouldWaitingBusinessHalfEconomyRecordsEventsLowsWake UpCrisisClimateChaosPainfulExtremesWeatherFuelTransitionReservesGlobesCarbonFossilsFossil FuelWake Up CallExtreme WeatherRecords Breaking Author:Christiana Figueres
“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.” WayWellsProblemTermWaterNumbersHalfTalkingMillionsHugeCoupleRight NowCrisisDecadesContamination Author:Josh Fox
“I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!” DoeNightForceHalfImagineDoorsCarOffersDemandCrisisReactionsStolenLureDiscsDelinquents Author:Jean-Louis Murat
“Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.” AgeProcessHalfMiddleDiscoveryCrisisLaysOutcomesBetter LifeMiddle AgesHalftime Author:Bob Buford
“The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.” WorldNeedsTwoCountryProblemTodayFacesHalfPovertyPositionCircumstancesUniqueModelsThirdsAccountsCrisisDollarsEnvironmentalPopulationDecentAddressesDevelopmentalWorld LifeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?” PeopleWorldMomentsHalfMillionsThis WorldCrisisDefinitionsHumanitarianMudWrong ThingsConcentrating Author:Natalie Dormer
“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.” PeopleWorldLawBlackHalfWorstEmotionalAnxietyCrisisCanadaImmigrantsManipulationTrendsExploitationHiv Author:Sarah Schulman
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentStoriesWould BeBlackWhiteHalfMillionsYears AgoDecidedCrisisBarackBlack PeopleGenesEntitledWhitenessDifferent Meanings Author:Eric Liu
“Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.” IfsYearsHas BeensMadeSelfMomentsCharacterNationsDecisionHalfHabitConsciousCrisisProfoundCompromisePreparationHeroicTestingInsignificantDefiningMundaneDecisions MadeBattleground Author:Dan Coats
“When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.” RealHandsPoliticalPoliticsHalfIssuesEnvironmentExcitingCrisisEnvironmentalPolitical LifeIron LadyHumdrumFalklands Author:Margaret Thatcher
“I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.” ThinkingFeelsSometimesMatterHalfKnowingOur LivesStrangeCrisisExistentialismExistentialExistential Crisis Author:Carrie Brownstein