The brutal logic of climate change | Grist
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“We are dealing with a far more ominous threat than sickness and death. We are dealing with the dark side of humanity — selfishness, avarice, aggression. All this has already polluted our skies, emptied our oceans, destroyed our forests and extinguished thousands of beautiful animals. Are our children next? … It is no longer enough to vaccinate them or give them food and water and only cure the symptoms of man’s tendency to destroy everything we hold dear. Whether it be famine in Ethiopia, excruciating poverty in Guatemala and Honduras, civil strife in El Salvador or ethnic massacre in the Sudan, I saw but one glaring truth; these are not natural disaster but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution – Peace.”
~Audrey Hepburn, April 1989, in a speech given while serving as goodwill ambassador for Unicef
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