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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don’t bargain.

Bill McKibben

We couldn’t outspend the fossil fuel industry – they have more money than God.
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Fossils Fuel Money More
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
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Fuel Political Thinking
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
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Becoming Late Trying
We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Add Events People
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Christmas Giving Ties
We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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Creativity Movement Passion
All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.
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Smart Squares Uprising
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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Facts Spiritual Voice
$Bill McKibben Quote - I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.$

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.
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Fracking Incentives Thinking
We don’t know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we’re clearly reaching close to some of them.
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Damage Tipping World
I don’t spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don’t think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they’re based in ideology. And I don’t think there’s anything you can do.
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Climate Denial Thinking
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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Ability Desire Style
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are.
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Climate Action Ideas India
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people.
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Ice Ocean Rocks

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don’t bargain.

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