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Bill McKibben

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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Administration Counter Done Productive
We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
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Movement Needs Thinking
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
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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Argument Global Thinking Warming
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
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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Men Taken 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 roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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Green Home House
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks
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
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
We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
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Becoming Late Trying
“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
In the States we’ve had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.
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Climate Lasts Years
I don’t think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don’t want to be involved in this enterprise.
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Fuel Thinking Want
We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They’ve got the big checkbooks. We’ve got to have the big crowd.
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Leader Scare Way

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