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I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

Bill McKibben

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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Atmosphere Tiny Years
Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
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Kids Looks Perfect
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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Administration Counter Done Productive
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment.
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Atmosphere Justice Thinking
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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Energy Fossils Fuel
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Climate Email Writing
There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
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Done Mail People
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people.
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Ice Ocean Rocks
Without a movement pressing for change, there’s little hope. We’ve got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.
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Littles Movement Political
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
There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
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Climate Energy Impossible
We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Add Events People
What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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Capable Creatures Different
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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Argument Global Thinking Warming
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
It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet’s life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it’s very hard to understand why we haven’t taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
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Crazy Generation Our Taken
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between “good weather” and “bad weather” is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
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Needs Rain Weather
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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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
We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.
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Coal Ocean Pipeline
The latest computer modeling I’ve seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as “environmental refugees.”
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Environmental might People
We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
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Becoming Late Trying
If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?
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Growing Running
I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.
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Fuel Subsidies Trying
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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Change Climate Digging Hole
These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
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Being Fighting Free Technology
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
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Fuel Political Thinking

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