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Ottmar Edenhofer

"Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated."

Source : "IPCC Official: 'Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World’s Wealth'". Interview with Bernard Potter, wattsupwiththat.com. November 18, 2010.

Ottmar Edenhofer

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“If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”
“Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.”
“It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...”

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.193, Macmillan
“I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], â€˜There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.â€™ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current systemâ€¦ Sustainable business asks, â€˜How would nature do this?â€™”
“He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.”
“All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.”
“People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.”

Source : "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.
“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”

"Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated."

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