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      101 Nobel Laureates Urge World Leaders to 'Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground'

      101 Nobel Laureates Urge World Leaders to 'Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground'

      "Fossil fuels are the greatest contributor to climate change. Allowing the continued expansion of this industry is unconscionable."

      Brett Wilkins
      Apr 21, 2021

      On the eve of Earth Day and the start of U.S. President Joe Biden's Leaders Summit on Climate, a group of 101 Nobel laureates published a letter urging world leaders and governments to "keep fossil fuels in the ground" as a critical first step toward addressing the climate emergency.

      "Urgent action is needed to end the expansions of fossil fuel production, phase out current production, and invest in renewable energy."
      --Nobel laureates' letter

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      Nobel Laureate Warns of 'Devastating Marriage' Between Artificial Intelligence and Killer Robots

      Nobel Laureate Warns of 'Devastating Marriage' Between Artificial Intelligence and Killer Robots

      "The biggest threats are the 'modernization' of nuclear weapons and the new 'revolution' of weapons," says Peace Prize winner Jody Williams.

      Andrea Germanos
      Apr 16, 2021

      Peace activist and Nobel laureate Jody Williams is continuing to sound alarm about so-called killer robots, saying in a recent interview that they represent a frightening marriage between "artificial intelligence and weapons of war."

      Williams, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and currently chairs the Nobel Women's Initiative, made the remark in an interview published last month with the Germany-based Faces of Peace Initiative.

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      'We Need a People's Vaccine': Ex-World Leaders, Nobel Laureates Urge Biden to Back WTO Waiver

      'We Need a People's Vaccine': Ex-World Leaders, Nobel Laureates Urge Biden to Back WTO Waiver

      "Supporting the emergency waiver of Covid-19-related intellectual property rules will give people around the globe a chance to wake up to a world free from the virus."

      Brett Wilkins
      Apr 14, 2021

      Calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to prioritize human need over corporate greed, more than 170 Nobel laureates and former heads of state and government on Wednesday sent an open letter urging him to back a waiver of intellectual property rules so that developing nations can ramp up coronavirus vaccine production and pursue a people's vaccine to help end a pandemic that has now claimed nearly three million lives.

      "We will not end today's global pandemic until rich countries--most especially the United States--stop blocking the ability of countries around the world to mass produce safe and effective vaccines."
      --
      Francoise Barre-Sinoussi,
      Nobel laureate

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