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Nicholas Stern

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen. . . We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this. . . it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

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We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

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We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

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The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

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Give up meat to save the planet.

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Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew. . . . Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years. . . . The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology. . . . The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

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Ann Coulter

Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers", they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9
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Viggo Mortensen

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

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What does Everton chairman Bill Kenwright think he will get for £6m? Andy Johnson's trainers?

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I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

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