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Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?
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Angela Merkel
"Climate change is one of the greatest challenges mankind faces."
Aug 09, 2007
Reuters
Greta Thunberg
Climate change is "above all, an existential crisis."
Oct 22, 2024
ABC News
Kamala Harris
"The clock is no longer just ticking, it is banging."
Oct 22, 2024
Africanews
Emmanuel Macron
"[W]e are killing our planet."
Oct 22, 2024
Wilson Center
António Guterres
"Humanity is on thin ice — and that ice is melting fast."
Oct 21, 2024
The Economic Times
Bjorn Lomborg
Global warming is "a real problem," but not an "end-of-the-world catastrophe."
Sep 24, 2023
Las Vegas Review
Jane Goodall
Climate change is "approaching a point of no return."
Oct 22, 2024
Taiwan
Olaf Scholz
"The fight against climate change will be the defining issue of the coming decades for all of us."
Oct 18, 2019
Council on Foreign Relations
Bill Gates
"As awful as this [COVID] pandemic is, climate change could be worse."
Oct 18, 2024
Africanews
Rishi Sunak
"There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change."
Nov 02, 2022
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Patrick Michaels
"I believe in climate change caused by human beings. What I'm skeptical about is the glib notion that it means the end of the world as we know it."
Oct 20, 2024
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Michael Mann
"We haven't yet exceeded the bounds of viable human civilisation, but we're getting close."
Sep 30, 2023
Guardian
Pope Francis
"The time for seeking global solutions [to climate change] is running out."
Sep 18, 2024
BBC News
Donald Trump
"[C]limate change is just a very, very expensive form of tax."
Oct 04, 2024
Council on Foreign Relations
Joe Biden
"The climate crisis is the existential threat. That's not hyperbole; it's a fact."
Oct 22, 2024
POLITICO
Freeman Dyson
"[A]ll the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated."
Mar 25, 2009
New York Times
Xi Jinping
"In meeting the climate challenge, no one can be aloof and unilateralism will get us nowhere."
Oct 21, 2024
Voice of America
Elon Musk
"Climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces this century, except for AI."
Nov 15, 2017
Rolling Stone
Fumio Kishida
"Climate change is the biggest global challenge we face today."
Nov 20, 2023
Stanford Report
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