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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

Bill McKibben

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
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Christmas Holiday Reflection
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
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Divergent Law Yield
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
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Numbers People World
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.
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Challenges Important Tendencies
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
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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Argument Global Thinking Warming
Without a movement pressing for change, there’s little hope. We’ve got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.
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Littles Movement Political
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
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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Administration Counter Done Productive
There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don’t have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.
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Country New Past People
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
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.
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Running Stress Thinking
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn’t seem like an enormous amount but it’s unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.
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Degrees Twenties Years
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
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Depth Example Hurricane
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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Facts Spiritual Voice
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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