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I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Bill McKibben

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
After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor – surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.
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Animal Lifetime Magazine
$Bill McKibben Quote - I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.$

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
We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.
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Feet Fossils Fuel
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
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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Clean Technology Transition
[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
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Couple Done Energy
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
There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don’t have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.
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Country New Past People
The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.
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Ideas Long Oil
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
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Climate Issues Real
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
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer’s drought provides a small taste.
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Oil People Summer
We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.
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Coal Ocean Pipeline
At least I sure hope it will – and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
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Agriculture Least Locals Sure

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