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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

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
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Divergent Law Yield
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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Battle Fighting Important
$Bill McKibben Quote - My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.$

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.
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Fuel Want Wind
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually
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Balance Growth Research
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
When we work all over the planet, it’s mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that’s mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
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Black People World
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
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
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
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West
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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Movement Needs Thinking
If [a student’s] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.
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College Degrees Guarantees
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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Colonialism Kind Slavery
We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Add Events People
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

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