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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

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
Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
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Energy Names Weather
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
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Christmas Holiday Reflection
Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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People Rich White
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels – in fact you have to.
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Addresses Levels Numbers
After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor – surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.
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Animal Lifetime Magazine
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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Administration Counter Done Productive
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
At least I sure hope it will – and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
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Agriculture Least Locals Sure
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
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
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Coal Company Worry
When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.
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Electricity Meter Sun
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
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
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

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