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Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

Bill McKibben

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
There are so many symptoms of this disease it’s hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology – on the way water moves around the planet.
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Looks Moving Water
It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we’re the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide.
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Mistake Problem World
$Bill McKibben Quote - I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.$

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
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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Atmosphere Tiny Years
Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump’s team, I don’t see a lot of openings for making real progress.
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Leader Majority Real Team
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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Men Taken Years
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents
Oil companies are radical because they’re willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Chemicals Oil
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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Balance Fuel Healthy
I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.
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Fuel Subsidies Trying
Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
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Kids Looks Perfect
I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.
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Community Connection Movement
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
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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Fossils Fuel Math
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
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Laziness Moral Tolerance

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

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