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There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

Bill McKibben

All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.
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Smart Squares Uprising
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
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Couple Ice Years
The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.
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Moving Needs Years
After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor – surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.
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Animal Lifetime Magazine
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
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
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Business Fuel Waste
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 think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
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Fuel Political Thinking
We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They’ve got the big checkbooks. We’ve got to have the big crowd.
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Leader Scare Way
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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Fossils Fuel Math
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Christmas Giving Ties
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
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
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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Feet Fossils Fuel
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents

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