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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.

Bill McKibben

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
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Community Peace Technology
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
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.
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Jobs Morning Optimistic
No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
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Games Strong Tasks
I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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Leader Less Writer
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
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Numbers People World
I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet’s history. We do a lot with art and music and things.
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Art Needs Thinking
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.
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Self Suicidal Thinking
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between “good weather” and “bad weather” is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
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Needs Rain Weather
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
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
Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we’d imagined.
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Emergencies Stronger Thinking
I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
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Climate Population Problem
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents
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
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

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