My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
Nicholas SternWhat we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.
Nicholas SternYou'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.
Nicholas SternThe scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.
Nicholas Stern