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We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Bill McKibben

Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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People Rich White
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
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Biodiversity Garden Sweet
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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Atmosphere Tiny Years
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
We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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Creativity Movement Passion
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
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
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
We don’t know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we’re clearly reaching close to some of them.
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Damage Tipping World
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we’re seeing both in stunning abundance.
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Air Warm Water Years
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
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Laziness Moral Tolerance
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.
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Challenges Important Tendencies
In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it’s more or less been over since 1995.
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Community Facts Purpose
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
Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump’s team, I don’t see a lot of openings for making real progress.
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Leader Majority Real Team

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