Ability Quote by Bill McKibben

“A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.”

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Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

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Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

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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 snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones…

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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

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“I’ve sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions,…

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We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when…

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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

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