The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
BILL MCKIBBENI think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
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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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Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people.
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At least I sure hope it will – and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
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A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.
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“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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Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.
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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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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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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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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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The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
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It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet’s life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it’s very hard to understand why we haven’t taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
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