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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

Bill McKibben

I guess the underlying principle might be, don’t make it too easy for them to stereotype you.
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might Principles Stereotype
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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Climate Lasts Years
There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
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Climate Energy Impossible
On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.
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Ice Ocean Water
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
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
In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it’s more or less been over since 1995.
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Community Facts Purpose
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
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
We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They’ve got the big checkbooks. We’ve got to have the big crowd.
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Leader Scare Way
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
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
I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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Leader Less Writer
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
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
Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
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Abundance Problem Use

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