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In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

Bill McKibben

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .
BILL MCKIBBEN

Country Epic Years
[Kids] will grow up into a world that’s difficult and wonderful, and they’ll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.
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Growing Kids Up World
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Climate Email Writing
$Bill McKibben Quote - I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.$

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.
BILL MCKIBBEN

Fracking Incentives Thinking
I’m not sure I’m a very good source of advice since we’re kind of making this up as we go along.
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Advice Kind Source
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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Administration Counter Done Productive
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
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Christmas Holiday Reflection
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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Change Climate Digging Hole
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Christmas Giving Ties
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
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels – in fact you have to.
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Addresses Levels Numbers
The latest computer modeling I’ve seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as “environmental refugees.”
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Environmental might People
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
It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet’s life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it’s very hard to understand why we haven’t taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
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Crazy Generation Our Taken
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

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

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In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

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