We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of providing sustainable energy solutions globally through various technologies.
Ban Ki-Moon highlights the necessity of ensuring access to sustainable energy for all people, regardless of their location. He suggests that deploying technologies like solar mini-grids and wind turbines can play a pivotal role in achieving this goal, ultimately contributing to a more equitable and environmentally friendly future.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about renewable energy at a conference.
Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.
There were a lot of naysayers over the years. People would say, 'Why are we spending all of this money? Are you sure this cellular thing will turn out to be something?'
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
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