We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
BILL MCKIBBENRenewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.
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We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
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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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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.
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I can’t tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they’re stepping up to be part of the solution.
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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.
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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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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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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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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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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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We’ll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.
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