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Bill McKibben

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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Global Philosophical Reality Warming
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
Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.
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Frozen Melting Temperature
$Bill McKibben Quote - It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.$

It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.
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Happening Ice People
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
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
We have to get our states to adopt what are called “renewable portfolio standards” pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.
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Business Energy Use Way Work
Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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People Rich White
If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?
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Growing Running
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.
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Challenges Important Tendencies
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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Fossils Fuel Math
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
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
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
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
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Advent Christmas Country Running

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