“The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate demands of the worlds dispossessed. Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a marginal existence in equatorial climates. Global warming, not of their making but originating with the wealthy few, will affect their fragile ecologies most. Their situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust. It cannot be expected, therefore, that in all cases they will be content to await the beneficence of the rich. If then we permit the devastating power of modern weaponry to spread through this combustible human landscape, we invite a conflagration that can engulf both rich and poor. The only hope for the future lies in co-operative international action, legitimized by democracy.”- Message from 100 Nobel Laureates Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium, 2002
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