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We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They’ve got the big checkbooks. We’ve got to have the big crowd.

Bill McKibben

We couldn’t outspend the fossil fuel industry – they have more money than God.
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Fossils Fuel Money More
Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world’s poor people depend.
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People Poor World
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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Energy Fossils Fuel
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Climate Email Writing
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
There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
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Done Mail People
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
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
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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Facts Spiritual Voice
I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There’s real hunger out there.
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Istanbul Real Thinking
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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Holy Mind Spirit
To me, it’s more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there’s a problem [of climate change] and get some percentage of them active than to try and stamp out the last embers of pre-scientific thought.
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Important People Trying
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 was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we’re the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide.
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Mistake Problem World
My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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Believer House Should
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 have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They’ve got the big checkbooks. We’ve got to have the big crowd.

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