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"The
past year's natural disasters have highlighted the
invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities.
They have volunteered their time, energy and skills
to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this
they joined countless people around the world who
volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'.
These often unsung heroes understand all too well
that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly
and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis."
-- Kofi
Annan
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The
UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all
nations share in economic, social, & scientific
progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to
the victims of wars and natural disasters.
-– Bill
Bradley
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Unprecedented
warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear
arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that
we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon,
the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our
immediate and distant future. -- Alan
Cranston
The
explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in
a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled
humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental
military launch of multiple warheads could result
in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers
and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
-- Alan
Cranston
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"Disaster
mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who
are at risk - in other words, it is empowering."
-- Ian Davis
"Like
everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the
loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother,
I cannot imagine the pain that they are experiencing. We
can all see that it's going to take a long time for those
people to rebuild their lives, and they will need our help
for years to come."
-- Celine Dion
"The
great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million
complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture.
Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even,
after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires,
and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady
undermining of its fabric by the activities of man."
~ Gerald Durrell
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"The
answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels...
If
we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth,
clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest
disaster so far in human history, saving millions
of lives while improving billions more. If we fail,
basically it's business as usual while things slowly
get worse all around us."
~ Al
Gore
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“They
are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less.
I think it's just a disaster for everyone."
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"Each
of us as human beings has a responsibility to reach out
to help our brothers and sisters affected by disasters.
One day it may be us or our loved ones needing someone to
reach out and help."
-- Michael W. Hawkins, American Red Cross
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"I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims
and I was inspired to try to make a difference."
-- Alanis
Morissette
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All
the nations and peoples are too closely knit together
today for any one of them to imagine that it can live
apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is
freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster
in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated
fragments."
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"All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather
patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting
an end to the long-running debate over whether or
not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's
here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly
new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.
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-- Barack
Obama
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Sometimes
it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
-- Jim
Wallis
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