Quotes About Global

we could view this global pandemic as a spur to global cooperation and action.

The Balkan wars, the Asian financial collapse, the 9/11 attacks, the global financial crisis, and now Covid-19. While they are all different, they have something crucial in common. They are all asymmetric shocks—things that start out small but end up sending seismic waves around the world.

Even though the roots of the crash lay in the excesses of the private sector, in many countries, people did not move to the left economically; they moved to the right culturally.

students in affluent suburban U.S. school districts score nearly as well as students in Singapore, the runaway leader on TIMSS math scores.

Animal products provide only 18% of calories worldwide, yet take up 80% of the earth's farmland.

strong public health systems and those systems need to communicate, learn from, and cooperate with one another. You cannot defeat a global disease with local responses.

Outbreaks are inevitable but pandemics are optional," says Larry Brilliant, the American physician who helped eradicate smallpox forty-five years ago.

The number of people on the planet has risen fivefold since 1900, while the average lifespan has doubled.

America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

concluded that "nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history." It noted that 75% of all land has been "severely altered" by human actions, as has 66% of the world's ocean area. Ecosystems are collapsing, and biodiversity is disappearing. As many as 1 million plant and animal species

War and organized violence have declined dramatically over the last two decades.

months. Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years.

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the end of 2004 to its lowest level since the late 1950s.

At the end of April 2020, low-income and middle-income countries, which have 84% of the world's population, were home to just 14% of the world's known deaths from Covid-19.

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

Una vida más larga sin duda representa una buena noticia para los individuos, pero es, en cambio, una mala noticia para el Estado del bienestar y los políticos que tienen que persuadir a los votantes de la necesidad de reformarlo. Hay, sin embargo, una noticia aún peor: el hecho de que, por más que la población mundial se haga más vieja, el propio mundo puede estar volviéndose al mismo tiempo un lugar más peligroso.

Crees tú que hay otro modo de acabar con esa locura que no sea el establecimiento de una autoridad a escala mundial con fuerza suficiente para disuadir a cualquier grupo de la afición a jugar a batallitas?

Pues bien, la Tierra no es un conjunto de parches ni de parcelas: mantenerla habitable y hermosa es una tarea que sólo puede ser asumida por los hombres en cuanto comunidad mundial, no desde el ventajismo miope de unos contra otros.

Today you cannot talk about a United Nations system;… what actually exists is a domination system over nearly all countries in the world by a small group of powers under the aegis of the United States, determining all issues.

We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.

I have a weird fan base, people from all over the place for some reason.

We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

I've got really fantastic fans from all over the world.