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Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

Bill McKibben

On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.
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Ice Ocean Water
Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world’s poor people depend.
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People Poor World
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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Change Climate Digging Hole
[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
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Couple Done Energy
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
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.
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Corporations Littles Our Society
To me the analogy [to climate change] is… doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says “oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised” people pay no attention.
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Doctors People Worry
I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
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Climate Population Problem
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
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
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
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
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
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
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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Colonialism Kind Slavery
I’m probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.
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Climate Person Thinking Wrong

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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