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We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Attention Planet
The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
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Fight Global International Movie People
As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.”
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Character Dangerous Expression Opportunity Symbol
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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Big Change Children Escape Moral Ourselves
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
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Children Diminish Earth Environment Future Global Rain Reality
As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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Account Action Government People Transparent
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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Civilization Future Life Ourselves
A zebra does not change its spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love
Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
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Earth Freedom Infrastructure Limitation
Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
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Act Climate Dirty Disturb Energy Quick Weather
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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Earth Mom Nature
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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Day Internet Invention Myself
I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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Climate Focus Myself Possible Solve
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
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Creation Internet Myself Service
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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Beyond Breathe Change Civilization Ourselves Past
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
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Connection Destruction Human Nature Quick Yourself
The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.
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Acceptance Animal Change
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Civilization Deep Drive Earth Expansion Nature Ourselves Surface Willing
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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Alive Creative Emergency Generation Mission Planet Way
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Climate Crisis Democracy Solve
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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Funny Nature Photograph Travel
When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.
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Change Climate Difference Togetherness
A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love Spots
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
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Cost Energy Myself Thinking Transition
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
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