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Bill McKibben

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
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Community Peace Technology
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
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
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Laziness Moral Tolerance
“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
We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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Creativity Movement Passion
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
Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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People Rich White
My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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Believer House Should
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
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
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
[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
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Couple Done Energy
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
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
If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?
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Growing Running
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks

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