Kofi Annan Quotes About Climate Change
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If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential, I think it should be the issue of water.
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Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.
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This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.
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