"But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto accord is negotiated and put into effect, there will probably not be enough time left to stop the warming short of the point where we must not go."

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Source : "Four harsh truths about climate change". www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

Gwynne Dyer

#Agreement Quotes #Years Quotes #Kyoto Quotes

“Developing nations want to become developed nations.”
“The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon”
“The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesâ€”mapping, charting, and architectureâ€”to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But thereâ€™s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.”
“I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.”
“I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.”
“I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.”

Source : John Christopher (2015). “Beyond the Burning Lands”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
“And part of growinâ€™ up is learninâ€™ to see the world through other menâ€™s eyes.”
“I don't see the point in being bitter.”

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