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Vote: | As the inheritors we have a moral responsibility to pass this inheritance on to those generations who come after us. And we have to pass it on in at least the same condition that we inherited it. We shouldn't let the value of the asset degrade, to use the kind of business language that we tend to use these days. |
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Vote: | The scientists say that it's going to be five to 10 degrees warmer by the end of this century, the 21st century, than it is today. |
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Vote: | The United Nations created the intergovernmental panel on climate change to which however many nations there are in the UN, like a hundred and something, each appointed their best climate scientists. So you have a body, a worldwide body of about 3,000 scientists. Now, they have, by consensus, agreed that and published these reports that are available on the World Wide Web and you should read them. |
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Vote: | There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us. |
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Vote: | There is, in fact, a win-win solution. When people talk about the costs that we might have to pay, what they mean is that energy prices will go up because we won't be allowed to burn as much fossil fuels as we are now; that we'll pay more at the gas pump and more for electricity and more for everything that embodies some amount of fossil fuel. |
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Vote: | We are using it up and we're going to pass it on to our children in terrible, terrible shape. And that's going to cost them dearly. And I mean our children; I mean kids who are alive today. I've got two and your listeners, I'm sure, have many. It's in the lifetime of our kids that the costs of climate change are going to be paid. |
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Peter Barnes, (January 10 1931–July 1 2004), was an English playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into the 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole was nominated for the Oscar for best actor,
Early years Barnes was born in Bow, London but was raised on the east coast, where his parents worked in an amusement arcade and later owned a couple of cafes. His upbringing in an English coastal resort probably helps explain the carnivalesque nature of his work. Barnes was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire and performed his national service with the Royal Air Force. After this he spent a small period working for London County Council.
Bored with his job, Barnes took a correspondence course in theology. It was at this time that he began to visit the British Museum reading room, which he used as an office on a daily basis. During this period he worked as a film critic, story editor, and a screenwriter. He achieved fame in 1968 with his baroque comedy The Ruling Class, which debuted at the Nottingham Playhouse. The play was notorious for its anti-naturalistic approach, unusual in theatre at the time. Critic Harry Hobson deemed it to be one of the best first plays of its generation. Following a successful three-month run in the West End, Barnes adapted the play for the 1972 film of the same name, which featured a highly acclaimed performance by Peter O'Toole.
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