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Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.

Bill McKibben

I don’t think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don’t want to be involved in this enterprise.
BILL MCKIBBEN

Fuel Thinking Want
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
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Future Long Running
I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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Leader Less Writer
Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump’s team, I don’t see a lot of openings for making real progress.
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Leader Majority Real Team
When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.
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Electricity Meter Sun
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
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Confusion Loneliness Use
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
My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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Believer House Should
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
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
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.
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Running Stress Thinking
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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Coal Oil Wind
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
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
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Damage Data Done
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Christmas Giving Ties

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