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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

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump’s team, I don’t see a lot of openings for making real progress.
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Leader Majority Real Team
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
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
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Climate Done Needs
We couldn’t outspend the fossil fuel industry – they have more money than God.
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Fossils Fuel Money More
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
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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Energy Fossils Fuel
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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Comforting Thinking World
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
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.
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Corporations Littles Our Society
Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
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Energy Names Weather
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
$Bill McKibben Quote - My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.$

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.
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Fuel Want Wind
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
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Change Climate Reality
Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world’s poor people depend.
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People Poor World
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks

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