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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.

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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
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Civilization Deep Drive Earth Expansion Nature Ourselves Surface Willing
Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
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Act Climate Dirty Disturb Energy Quick Weather
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
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Education Myself President Special
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Attention Planet
Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
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Earth Freedom Infrastructure Limitation
Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.
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Creation Dangerous Global Nature Quick Science Warning
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.
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Atheist Country Faith People Religious Right
Take it from me: Elections matter.
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Election Myself One Liner
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Election People Population Vote
I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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Climate Focus Myself Possible Solve
Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.
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Acceptance People President Reason Truth
The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
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
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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Audience Dangerous Information

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