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We have to get our states to adopt what are called “renewable portfolio standards” pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.

Bill McKibben

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Business Fuel Waste
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn’t seem like an enormous amount but it’s unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.
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Degrees Twenties Years
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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Change Climate Digging Hole
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.
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Air Ocean Summer
We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.
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Coal Ocean Pipeline
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that’s how one would do it – lots and lots of people saying “we’re severing our ties”.
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People Ties Wanted
The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.
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Moving Needs Years
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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Colonialism Kind Slavery
[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
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Couple Done Energy
What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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Capable Creatures Different
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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Argument Global Thinking Warming
We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.
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Feet Fossils Fuel
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
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Advent Christmas Country Running
Very few people on earth ever get to say: ‘I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.’ If you’ll join this fight that’s what you’ll get to say
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Fighting Important People
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West

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We have to get our states to adopt what are called “renewable portfolio standards” pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.

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