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There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

Bill McKibben

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
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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Atmosphere Tiny Years
The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Fire Helping World
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are.
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Climate Action Ideas India
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
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that’s how one would do it – lots and lots of people saying “we’re severing our ties”.
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People Ties Wanted
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
What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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Capable Creatures Different
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.
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Climate Energy Impossible
I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.
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Community Connection Movement
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
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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Country Epic Years
The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we’ll dawdle.
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Climate Essentials Needs
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
We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
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Movement Needs Thinking
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

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