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2008-11 "As human civilization develops, the environment is increasingly affected in negative ways. Floods, drought, changing rainfall patterns and rising temperatures are signs of our misdeeds to nature."
-- Rozali Ismail, head of a state water association in Malaysia.
2007-11-08 "Africa does not know what is happening in its environment. Many of the cities in Africa do not even have pollution measurement instruments or programmes.
The World Metrological Organisation has established that Africa has one-eighth of the minimum critical infrastructure that is needed to even monitor meteorological developments."
-- Achim Steiner, executive director of UNEP, told a news conference
2007-10-16 "Politics and the racial environment is threatening the human family.
But black males, in particular, are endangered. Our attitudes, our ignorance, our savagery are all lending to a plan -- a conspiracy to make the black man, not endangered, but extinct... If God doesn't intervene, we will be extinct."
-- Louis Farrakhan, leader of Nation of Islam, at a ceremony marking the 12th annual Holy Day of Atonement and the 12th anniversary of the Million Man March at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Cente
2007-09-11 "Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon.
The main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shockwave and an incredibly high temperature.
All that is alive merely evaporates.
At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."
-- Alexander Rukshin, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff, told Russia's state ORT First Channel television
2007-08-15 "We are concerned about the fact that adverse effects of climate change and the associated phenomena, including sea level rise and the increase in frequency and intensity of hurricanes, cyclones, floods and other weather patterns, as well as deglaciation, drought and desertification, threaten the sustainable development, livelihoods and the very existence of many developing countries."
-- Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, Pakistan's Minister for Environment, speaking on behalf of the 130 developing nations of the Group of 77, told a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
2007-07-06 Discontent with pollution "has resulted in a rising number of 'mass incidents'" -- an official euphemism for riots, protests and collective petitions.
SEPA had received 1,814 citizen petitions in the first five months of this year demanding an improved environment, an 8 percent rise on the same period of 2006
--Zhou Shengxian, Chief of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
2007-07-02 China’s State Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) and health ministry asked the World Bank to cut the calculations of premature deaths (750,000 people) from the report “Cost of Pollution in China”, when a draft was finished last year.
-- according to World Bank advisers and Chinese officials.
2007-07 Sixteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China.
-- World Bank research
2007-07 * High air-pollution levels in Chinese cities is leading to the premature deaths of 350,000-400,000 people each year.
* About 300,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to poor air indoors
* About 60,000-odd premature deaths were attributable to poor-quality water, largely in the countryside, from severe diarrhoea, and stomach, liver and bladder cancers.
-- World Bank, 2007-07
2007-06-29 Climate change poses a double challenge: Europe must not only make deep cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions but also take measures to adapt to current and future climate change in order to lessen the adverse impacts of global warming on people, the economy and the environment.
-- Green Paper published by the European Commission

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