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There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

Bill McKibben

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don’t bargain.
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Chemistry Hands Real
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .
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Country Epic Years
Where people aren’t as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it’s far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they’re much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They’re ready to go.
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Country Energy People
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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Fossils Fuel Math
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels – in fact you have to.
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Addresses Levels Numbers
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Business Fuel Waste
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer’s drought provides a small taste.
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Oil People Summer
No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
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Games Strong Tasks
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
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Country People Years
According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually
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Balance Growth Research
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that’s how one would do it – lots and lots of people saying “we’re severing our ties”.
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People Ties Wanted
$Bill McKibben Quote - It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.$

It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.
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Happening Ice People
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.
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Challenges Important Tendencies
All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can’t substitute for real connection and community.
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Community Google Real
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
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Community Peace Technology

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