I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.
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We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
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I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.
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We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.
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If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are.
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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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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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