I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.
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of corn, or two blades of grass, ... JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ... JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ... JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ... JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a... JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim. JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnis... JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down! JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been... JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. JONATHAN SWIFT