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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.

Bill McKibben

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
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world’s poor people depend.
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People Poor World
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
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
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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Fuel Subsidies Trying
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
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
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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Balance Fuel Healthy
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between “good weather” and “bad weather” is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
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Needs Rain Weather
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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Men Taken Years
I don’t think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don’t want to be involved in this enterprise.
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Fuel Thinking Want
I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
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Climate Population Problem
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
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we’re seeing both in stunning abundance.
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Air Warm Water Years

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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