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Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world’s poor people depend.

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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Couple Done Energy
But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don’t think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we’re now shifting the planet.
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Fighting Thinking Winning
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
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
On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.
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Ice Ocean Water
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Climate Email Writing
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
I’m probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.
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Climate Person Thinking Wrong
$Bill McKibben Quote - It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.$

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
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we’ll dawdle.
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Climate Essentials Needs
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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Facts Spiritual Voice
It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.
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Firsts Global Ironic Warming
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
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
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

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