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And in a worrying portent of climate change's capacity to bring chaos, it is a flurry of extreme weather events which has caused this record surge in the price of food staples.
Tommy Stadlen: Climate Revolutions Tommy Stadlen 2011
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In the words of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen: "Whatever the root cause, climate change's potential impacts are sobering and far-reaching," . . .
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Making change for change's sake is a recipe for failure.
Should President Obama shake up his staff? Jena McGregor 2010
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N&S Korea may be interpreted as representing how far down a high-IQ population can be pushed by the extremes of socialism and tyranny, and the limits of cultural change's possibilities in the south.
Culture and Prosperity, Again, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In West Africa, one of the biggest examples of climate change's cause and effect has been overfishing.
West Africa Explores Ways to Mitigate Climate Change's Effects 2011
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We change now for change's sake, hoping that somehow it is not insanity for us to repeat ourselves but that one of these new leaders will provide anything besides rhetoric and/or going through the motions.
B.D. Gallof: One Year Ago, No Different Than Today: A Political Observation B.D. Gallof 2010
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So it's either change for change's sake—"we're pursuing a youth policy" being the rallying call of desperate sports teams throughout history—or there's some other agenda.
Is It Time to Clear Out Australia's Cricket Selectors? Richard Lord 2011
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"Before the planet kicks us all off, we have to end discrimination, because we all need to work together," he says, linking climate change's impacts to discriminations, the type of broad reference not uncommon for this self-described spiritual activist.
James M. Russell: Richard Noble on Equality, Activism, Spirituality James M. Russell 2010
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Change for change's sake is short sighted and dangerous.
Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out' 2009
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These are signs, it is not about change for change's sake, it is about looking for the whole meaning and overcoming the secularisation of our world.
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