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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.

Bill McKibben

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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Coal Oil Wind
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
We’ll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.
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Attitude Powerful Thinking
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
Very few people on earth ever get to say: ‘I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.’ If you’ll join this fight that’s what you’ll get to say
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Fighting Important People
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
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
$Bill McKibben Quote - I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.$

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
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
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.
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Hands Issues Thinking
[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
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West
In the States we’ve had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.
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Climate Lasts Years
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
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Couple Ice Years
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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Ability Desire Style
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents

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