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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

Bill McKibben

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
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
The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.
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Ideas Long Oil
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
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.
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Country Rich Countries Two
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
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn’t seem like an enormous amount but it’s unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.
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Degrees Twenties Years
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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People Rich White
I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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Leader Less Writer
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
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Climate Email Writing
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.
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Climate Lasts Years
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
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

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

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