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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.

Al Gore

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
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
The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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Audience Dangerous Information
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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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Fight Global International Movie People
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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Earth Mom Nature
We all know the leopard can’t change his stripes.
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Acceptance Animal Change
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

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