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• Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so…
• Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
• Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions…
• Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens…
• If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will…
• Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the…
• Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later…
• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same…
• Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
• Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

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