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A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Bill McKibben

When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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Change Climate Digging Hole
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
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are.
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Climate Action Ideas India
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
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Numbers People World
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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Fossils Fuel Math
It’s off the charts – and if you don’t believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.
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Believe People Risk
Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
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Energy Names Weather
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
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Climate Issues Real
I guess the underlying principle might be, don’t make it too easy for them to stereotype you.
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might Principles Stereotype
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
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
We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.
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Feet 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
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
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Christmas Giving Ties

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