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Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.


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The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.



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Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say



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In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"



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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.



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Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.



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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.



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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.



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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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