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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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Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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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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Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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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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Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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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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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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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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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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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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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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Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.
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We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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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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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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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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Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.
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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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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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In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed…. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
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We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
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