Barbara Stocking on today
Barbara Stocking5 quotes“Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.”
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Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking Climate change is…a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on today
Today the search for a new global order is under way.
Ahmet DavutogluAhmet Davutoglu So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people.
Ahmad Sa'adatAhmad Sa'adat First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
AgniveshAgnivesh If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can’t keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.
Agustin Fernandez MalloAgustin Fernandez Mallo No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes
