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A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.'
- Nicholas Stern
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
- Nicholas Stern
#Change
#Climate
#Look
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It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.
- Nicholas Stern
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To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
- Nicholas Stern
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I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
- Nicholas Stern
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The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?
- Nicholas Stern
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As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
- Nicholas Stern
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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
- Nicholas Stern
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I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.
- Nicholas Stern
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Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
- Nicholas Stern
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We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.
- Nicholas Stern
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Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.
- Nicholas Stern
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If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
- Nicholas Stern
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I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.
- Nicholas Stern
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My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
- Nicholas Stern
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#Climate
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
- Nicholas Stern
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#Health
#Science
#Thrive
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