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It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

Bill McKibben

[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.
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Coral Dying President Reefs
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment.
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Atmosphere Justice Thinking
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local – the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.
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Oil Thinking Wind
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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Global Philosophical Reality Warming
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
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Damage Data Done
There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
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Done Mail People
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.
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Running Stress Thinking
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
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Addresses Facts Years
I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
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Climate Population Problem
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between “good weather” and “bad weather” is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
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Needs Rain Weather
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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Green Home House
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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Chemistry Hands Real
In the States we’ve had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.
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Climate Lasts Years
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
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents

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