My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.
BILL MCKIBBENWhen we work all over the planet, it’s mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that’s mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
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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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The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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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.
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We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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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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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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In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: ‘free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren’t solving global warming, QED global warming is not a problem’. It’s not a very good syllogism but it’s emotionally comforting if you’re in that world.
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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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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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Oil companies are radical because they’re willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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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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According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually
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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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The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels – in fact you have to.
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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.
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