Quotes of: Global-village Keyword

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Jeff Goodell

The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

Richard Grasso

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Bob Taft

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Jeff Goodell

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Ethan Zuckerman

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

Ban Ki-moon

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Bjorn Lomborg

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Bjorn Lomborg

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Bill McKibben

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Brian Mulroney

This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Stephen Hawking

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Al Seckel

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Bill Bryson

Going into a country the first time, ask what is forbidden; on entering a village, ask what are the customs; on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.

Chinese

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people rea...

Max Brooks

...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us fo...

John Harte

You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when they find out you want to do something other than sweep the kitchen or cut up vegetables. Had this big starch mango tree when I was small. Anytime I...

Rune Mathura and the Case of the Village Jumbie