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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

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I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
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Horizon Myself See Try
We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
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Problem Run Solution Time
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
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Climate Consequence Dangerous Global Time Warm
We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.
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Acceptance Animal Change
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
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Children Diminish Earth Environment Future Global Rain Reality
I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
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Believe Better Freedom Religion Separate Strong Way
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
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Challenge Climate Conscious Issues Level Politics Spiritual
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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Big Change Children Escape Moral Ourselves
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
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Connection Destruction Human Nature Quick Yourself
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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Alive Creative Emergency Generation Mission Planet Way
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Attention Planet
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
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Change Each Other Live Solution Way
We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
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Business Liquid Operation Planet
In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Time Wisdom Yourself
As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.”
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Character Dangerous Expression Opportunity Symbol
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
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Earth Fate Kind Man Possible Religion
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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Area Digital Myself Priority Privacy Secret
As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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Account Action Government People Transparent
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
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Enemy Global Ourselves Struggle War
A zebra does not change its spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love
The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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Audience Dangerous Information
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
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Civilization Distribution Human Information Intelligence Past
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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Civil History Moral Obey Play Role Thinking Understand
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
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Believe Better Demand Leadership Ourselves Power Voice
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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Civilization Future Life Ourselves
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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Beyond Breathe Change Civilization Ourselves Past
A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love Spots

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