"The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what's in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don't think those issues are very important."

-- Ross Garnaut

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“By nature I'm not a brooder.”
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
“Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.”
“Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.”
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.”
“I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'”
“I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.”
“The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.”

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