Quotes About Global

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But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

Our school was a microcosm of the world.

The long-term consequences of dropping the atomic bomb were also as poorly understood in the 1940s as the consequences of unleashing digital weapons are today - not only with regard to the damages they would cause, but to the global arms race they would create.

Unfortunately, as Chinese policymakers saw America as a fallen giant, they displayed arrogance when dealing with America in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis.

While China projects an image of being a stable and predictable member of the global multilateral order, America, under Trump, is increasingly perceived as a chaotic and unpredictable actor.

the primary goal of China's rulers is to preserve peace and harmony among 1.4 billion people in China, not try to influence the lives of the 6 billion people who live outside China.

China has no such economic necessity. Its economy can grow well, even without American investments.

the weaponizing of the US dollar has created a powerful global incentive to create an alternative currency for global trading purposes.

One simple question we should ask is which country—China or the United States—is swimming in the same direction as the majority of the other 191?

This work indicates that the fourth industrial revolution is unique, driven as it is by a global network of smart (network-driven) cities, countries and regional clusters, which understand and leverage the opportunities of this revolution – top down and bottom up – acting from a holistic and integrated perspective.

The second industrial revolution has yet to be fully experienced by 17% of the world as nearly 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity.

the integration of materials with blockchain technologies could aid in the implementation of a global database for trusted materials sourcing and recycling provenance records.

Labour markets, meanwhile, are becoming biased towards a limited range of technical skill sets, and globally connected digital platforms and marketplaces are granting outsized rewards to a small number of "stars".

During the lockdowns, a quasi-global relaxation of regulations that had previously hampered progress in domains where the technology had been available for years suddenly happened because there was no better or other choice available.

All strategies to address global climate change require large-scale interventions to have anything more than short-term local effects. Even massive reforestation might not offset the ongoing yearly deforestation in the Amazon and elsewhere.

Source: Deep Shift – Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact, Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, World Economic Forum, September 2015.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

In todays world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

Scientists tell us that the world of nature is so small and interdependent that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest can generate a violent storm on the other side of the earth. This principle is known as the "Butterfly Effect." Today, we realize, perhaps more than ever, that the world of human activity also has its own "Butterfly Effect" for better or for worse.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.