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The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

Bill McKibben

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
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Abundance Problem Use
“Science,” of course, replaced “God” as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.
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Future People Two
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
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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
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
There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
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Done Mail People
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 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
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
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Country People Years
I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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Leader Less Writer
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
I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.
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Fuel Needs Thinking
I can’t tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they’re stepping up to be part of the solution.
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Buddhist Email Moving
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 laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
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Divergent Law Yield
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

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

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The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

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