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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

Bill McKibben

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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Needs Powerful Real
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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Looks Moving Water
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
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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Electricity Meter Sun
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
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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Future Long Running
It’s off the charts – and if you don’t believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.
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Believe People Risk
I’m guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.
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Climate Technology Years
Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.
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Frozen Melting Temperature
Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
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Energy Names Weather
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
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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Agriculture Least Locals Sure
[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.
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Coral Dying President Reefs
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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Energy Fossils Fuel
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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Battle Fighting Important
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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Argument Global Thinking Warming

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