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In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

Bill McKibben

We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Add Events 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
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
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
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
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Confusion Loneliness Use
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
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks
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
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
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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Change Climate Digging Hole
Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.
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Frozen Melting Temperature
Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
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Energy Names Weather
I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet’s history. We do a lot with art and music and things.
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Art Needs Thinking
I guess the underlying principle might be, don’t make it too easy for them to stereotype you.
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might Principles Stereotype
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
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

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In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

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