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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
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