“Climate change adds further injustice to an already unfair world.”

— Emmanuel Macron

Cited in: Damian Carrington, "Climate change will determine humanity's destiny, says Angela Merkel" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/15/climate-change-will-determine-humanitys-destiny-says-angela-merkel, The Guardian, 15 November 2017 (page visited on 15 November 2017). <br class="br">United Nations Climate Change Conference (2017)

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25th President of the French Republic 1977

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Mohamed Nasheed (1967) Maldivian politician, 4th president of the Maldives

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Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 57

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António Guterres (1949) Secretary-General of the United Nations

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“Climate change is already... costing our nations trillions of dollars and we know that none of us can escape the worse that’s yet to come if we fail to seize this moment.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

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“Gordon Brown thinks you should solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. We think you should solve climate change by changing your Government.”

Siân Berry (1974) British politician

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“Climate Change Reconsidered, the 2009 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), is the report on global warming the United Nations' climate panel should have written – but didn't.”

Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist

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Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

At a press conference for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as the Doomsday Clock is moved forward by two minutes to five minutes to midnight, as quoted in "Nukes, climate push 'Doomsday Clock' forward" MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16670686/ (1 January 2007)

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Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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“Climate change adds further injustice to an already unfair world.”

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