The reason we travel is that we love the world in all it's variety - it is under threat - our actions can affect it. We can live and travel responsibly, we can put pressure on our governments to make living and travelling responsibly a better option.
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“Climate change is the single biggest long-term problem we face - the evidence is overwhelming” (UK Prime Minister Tony Blair).
"Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism"
(Sir David King, UK Government's chief scientific adviser).
“Imagine melting polar icecaps and rising sea levels, threatening highly developed coastal areas...Imagine a warmer and wetter world in which infectious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever spread more easily
(this is not) science fiction; it is sober prediction, based on the best science available” (UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan).
"A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone" (UN Secretary, General Kofi Annan).
"The key is actually discarding the idea that has dominated economic policy making, which is: in order for a country to get rich, stay rich and get richer, you have to put more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. That isn't true and it hasn't been true for years" (Former US President Bill Clinton).
"This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... The good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it" (Former US President Bill Clinton).
“It is not sufficient to have debt cancellation, aid raised to 0.7%!o(MISSING)f GDP and fair trade if you also have global warming and environmental degradation...we have to mobilise to make sure climate change is on the same frontburner in people's minds as the other issues" (Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
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