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We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

Bill McKibben

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
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Couple Ice Years
When we work all over the planet, it’s mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that’s mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
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Black People World
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
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Biodiversity Garden Sweet
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
We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
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Movement Needs Thinking
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
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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Balance Fuel Healthy
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
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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Battle Fighting Important
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Business Fuel Waste
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
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
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
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
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
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

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