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But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Bill McKibben

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
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
I don’t spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don’t think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they’re based in ideology. And I don’t think there’s anything you can do.
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Climate Denial Thinking
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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Global Philosophical Reality Warming
The latest computer modeling I’ve seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as “environmental refugees.”
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Environmental might People
We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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Creativity Movement Passion
All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can’t substitute for real connection and community.
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Community Google Real
There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
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Climate Energy Impossible
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
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Damage Data Done
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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Administration Counter Done Productive
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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Battle Fighting Important
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.
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Fighting Winning Years
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

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