Global Warming
Singapore was the 9th top carbon dioxide emitter per capita in the world in 2009: 34.59 tonnes per capita. All emissions from building and cement production are local but some people may argue that some Singapore produced fuels and/or goods are consumed abroad.
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Famous quotes containing the words global and/or warming:
“As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“Under that wide hearth
a nest of rattlers,
they’ll knot a hundred together,
had wintered and were coming awake.
The warming rock
flushed them out early.”
—Robert Morgan (b. 1944)