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No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

Bill McKibben

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn’t seem like an enormous amount but it’s unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.
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Degrees Twenties Years
[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.
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Coral Dying President Reefs
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment.
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Atmosphere Justice Thinking
It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.
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Firsts Global Ironic Warming
There are so many symptoms of this disease it’s hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology – on the way water moves around the planet.
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Looks Moving Water
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
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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Capable Creatures Different
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
All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.
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Smart Squares Uprising
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Habit Term West
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
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Advent Christmas Country Running
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.
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Clean Technology Transition
It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we’re the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide.
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Mistake Problem World
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
Very few people on earth ever get to say: ‘I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.’ If you’ll join this fight that’s what you’ll get to say
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Fighting Important People

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