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Bill McKibben

[Kids] will grow up into a world that’s difficult and wonderful, and they’ll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.
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Growing Kids Up World
We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.
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Feet Fossils Fuel
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
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer’s drought provides a small taste.
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Oil People Summer
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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Atmosphere Tiny Years
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it’s going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it’s also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
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Environmental Growth Thinking
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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Kids Looks Perfect
When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.
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Electricity Meter Sun
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local – the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.
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Oil Thinking Wind
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
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 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
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
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
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
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Laziness Moral Tolerance
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

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