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In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.

Bill McKibben

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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Global Philosophical Reality Warming
To me the analogy [to climate change] is… doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says “oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised” people pay no attention.
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Doctors People Worry
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Climate Email Writing
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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Holy Mind Spirit
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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
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
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
I’m not sure I’m a very good source of advice since we’re kind of making this up as we go along.
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Advice Kind Source
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
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
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
I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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Leader Less Writer
[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.
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Coral Dying President Reefs
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They’ll just ask, “So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?”
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Cliffs Crisis Euro Years
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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Green Home House
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.

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In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.

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