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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.

Bill McKibben

Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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People Rich White
My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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Believer House Should
These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
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Being Fighting Free Technology
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
I can’t tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they’re stepping up to be part of the solution.
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Buddhist Email Moving
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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Climate Insoluble Problem
There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don’t have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.
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Country New Past People
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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Country Easy Half Make Tvs
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
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment.
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Atmosphere Justice Thinking
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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Global Philosophical Reality Warming
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.
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Clean Technology Transition
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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Ability Desire Style
If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?
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Growing Running
No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
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Games Strong Tasks

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