"Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms"

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Source : "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

Nicholas Stern

#Water Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.”
“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
“Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.”
“Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.”
“Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.”
“The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.”

Source : "Women Decide" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.
“At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.”
“Christianity is such a silly religion.”

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