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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

Bill McKibben

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.
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Needs Powerful Real
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people.
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Ice Ocean Rocks
We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.
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Coal Ocean Pipeline
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.
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Hands Issues Thinking
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
It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet’s life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it’s very hard to understand why we haven’t taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
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Crazy Generation Our Taken
We’ll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.
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Attitude Powerful Thinking
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
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
If [a student’s] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.
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College Degrees Guarantees
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, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.
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Country Rich Countries Two
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
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 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

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