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Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.
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Moral
Our Planet
Imperative
Planet
Protecting
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We live on a human-dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth.
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Earth
Pressure
Unprecedented
Planet
Putting
Systems
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Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains.
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Climate
Climate Change
Inconsistency
Resources
Threat
Water
Change Climate Climate Change
Change Water Climate
Tremendous
Poses
Rains
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If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.
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Climate Change
Change Climate Climate Change
Everything Else
Undermine
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Global warming is a scientific fact as much as the hole in the ozone layer or Earth's orbit around the sun.
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Global Warming
Orbit
Ozone
Sun
Global
Hole
Layer
Scientific
Scientific Fact
Warming
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Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.
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Environmental
Destruction
Levels
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During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
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Altered
Clearing
Diverting
Undoubtedly
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Fundamentally, we need a mind-shift that reconnects our development to the biosphere to ensure good and safe lives for all in the future.
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Ensure
Fundamentally
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If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.
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Wellbeing
World Economy
Entire World
Reconnect
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Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
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Future
Agreement
Climate
Development
Paris
Progress
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
Avenue
Deliver
Inclusive
Global
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Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply.
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Conditions
Spurs
Incremental
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World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less than coping with the consequences of burning the planet's remaining fossil fuels.
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Burning
Coping
Transforming
Far Less
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Remaining
World Leaders
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Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
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Business
Ability
Forests
Greenhouse Gases
Resilient
Rivers
Absorb
Coral
Sustainable
Gases
Greenhouse
Increases
Makes
Ways
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Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
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Zero
Biodiversity
Descendants
Endowment
Loss
Poverty
Wipe
Tax
Bill
Either
Leave
Facing
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The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.
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Biodiversity
Destruction
Ecosystems
Fire
Resilient
Setting
Stable
Wanton
Makes
Societies
Prerequisite
Value
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To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.
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Environmental
Catastrophe
Emissions
Human Progress
Bend
Curve
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Reduce
Reversing
Urgently
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By decarbonizing the global economy and limiting climate change, world leaders can unleash a wave of innovation, support the emergence of new industries and jobs, and generate vast economic opportunities.
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Climate Change
Emergence
Global Economy
Innovation
Wave
Change World Climate
Vast
Economic Opportunities
Generate
Change World Support
Industries
Limiting
Unleash
World Leaders
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Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.
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Climate Change
Curb
Demand
Natural Environment
Terrorism
Associated
Epidemic
Governments
Preserve
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The number of children in the world is not growing, and so we eventually have a chance to stabilize the population at around 10 billion. We have the technology and wherewithal to feed and provide energy for this many people.
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Population
Billion
Feed
Stabilize
Wherewithal
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There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
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Accomplished
Economic
Fourth
Industrial Revolution
Linear
Practice
Principles
Revolution
Billion
Circular
Industrial
Thriving
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Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing - not only because it would limit climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.
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Climate
Climate Change
Democratic
Healthy
Resilient
Change World Climate
Advanced
Change World More
Appeal
Begun
Dynamic
Economically
Limit
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Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.
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Ocean
Atmosphere
Carbon
Coastal
Cycles
Emissions
Fuel
Greenhouse Gases
Heat
Hurricanes
Levels
Providing
Rising
Sea
Stores
Warm
Water
Zone
Altering
Bringing
Gases
Greenhouse
Holds
Planet
Threaten
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We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
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Biodiversity
Degradation
Evidence
Forests
Lakes
Loss
Stable
Arid
Pushed
Thriving
Tip
Warming
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Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
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Hunters
Modern Era
Sedentary
Stable
Civilizations
Clearly
Current
Remarkably
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It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even drive greater innovation, not only for short-term benefits and solutions for human wealth but also long-term solutions that benefit all and enable planetary stability.
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Fourth
Industrial Revolution
Innovation
Long Term
Revolution
Short Term
Solutions
Stability
Benefit
Sustainable
Enable
Ensure
Industrial
Planetary
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There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.
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Environmental
Abandoned
Economic Development
Environmental Problems
Achieved
Correct
Curve
Solving
Thriving
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