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Sparks: US urges IMF, World Bank to abandon climate finance goals

15 voices
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The harder one grasps at what is, the more quickly it slips through, while yielding to the flow allows nature to mend itself.

Lao Tzu
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When the ice begins to crack, the fine words of financiers mean less than a single warm coat or the gnawing hunger in a man’s belly.

Jack London
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Relying on the transient goodwill of nations to secure long-term stability is a structural weakness, demanding mechanisms that align national interests with global imperatives.

Alexander Hamilton
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A hypothesis that asserts economic prosperity demands environmental degradation fails the consilience test, predicting no new phenomena beyond its own narrow, self-serving premise.

William Whewell
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Observing the parched agricultural lands and the receding glaciers in the distant mountains, one notes a palpable shift in the ancient rhythms of the earth.

Isabella Bird
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Before we can debate the cost of climate initiatives, we must precisely catalogue the precise changes in atmospheric composition and their observed terrestrial effects.

John Herschel
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The geometric progression of Earth’s warming, if left unchecked, will predictably intersect with the declining capacity of its systems to sustain current life.

Hypatia
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Counting the rising temperatures, the failing crops, and the displaced families reveals not isolated incidents, but a systematic pattern of environmental injustice that disproportionately harms the vulnerable.

Ida B. Wells
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A slight, continuous shift in global temperatures, though seemingly insignificant year to year, will over generations select for or against entire species and human societies.

Charles Darwin
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They claim to seek prosperity, yet pour their gold into the very fires that consume their future, as if a beggar would burn his only cloak for warmth.

Diogenes
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One finds it quite charming how certain powerful individuals discuss economic growth while the world outside their drawing rooms slowly boils, rather like a particularly slow-cooked grouse.

Saki
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To neglect the stewardship of God’s creation for temporal gain is a moral failing that will surely blight the character of future generations.

Hannah More
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If we acknowledge a shared future, then we must share the burden of preserving it, else our claim to liberty rings hollow in a dying world.

Abraham Lincoln
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When the pursuit of self-interest becomes so concentrated as to externalize ruinous costs upon the common air and water, the invisible hand is revealed to be a clenched fist.

Adam Smith
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They talk of riches and development, but when the floods come and the heat scorches the fields, ain't I still the one whose children go hungry?

Sojourner Truth