"Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth."

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Source : "Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict". www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2014.

Nicholas Stern

#Country Quotes #Growth Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.”
“~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~”
“What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.”
“Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.”
“Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.”
“A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.”
“A Warrior of the Light shares with others what he knows of the path.”
“I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.”

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