Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
BILL MCKIBBENA price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
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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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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
BILL MCKIBBENYou can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
BILL MCKIBBENTV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
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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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I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.
BOBBY FISCHERBobby Fischer
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My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
BILL MCKIBBENMy house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.
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Breckin Meyer
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[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
BILL MCKIBBEN[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
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Bo Burnham
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I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
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We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
BILL MCKIBBENWe’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
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