The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.
BILL MCKIBBENWe just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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There are so many symptoms of this disease it’s hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology – on the way water moves around the planet.
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Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
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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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If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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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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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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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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A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
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There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
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We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
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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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There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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