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

Bill McKibben

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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Energy Fossils Fuel
I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.
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Fuel Needs Thinking
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 most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
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Depth Example Hurricane
$Bill McKibben Quote - I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.$

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.
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Fracking Incentives Thinking
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
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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Ability Desire Style
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
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between “good weather” and “bad weather” is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
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Needs Rain Weather
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
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents
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
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.
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Climate Lasts Years
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
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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Ideas Long Oil

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