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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."
Jan 16, 2020
Reuters
Kamala Harris
"The clock is no longer just ticking, it is banging."
Dec 02, 2023
The White House
Emmanuel Macron
"[W]e are killing our planet."
Apr 25, 2018
Elysee.Fr
António Guterres
"Humanity is on thin ice — and that ice is melting fast."
Mar 20, 2023
Associated Press
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."
Sep 28, 2022
Forbes India
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."
Aug 04, 2020
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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."
May 27, 2006
Washington Post
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."
Dec 11, 2014
National Catholic Reporter
Donald Trump
"[C]limate change is just a very, very expensive form of tax."
Jan 18, 2016
Business Insider
Joe Biden
"The climate crisis is the existential threat. That's not hyperbole; it's a fact."
Mar 14, 2022
The White House
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."
Dec 12, 2020
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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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