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From Quotes by Bill McKibben
- Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.…
- We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete…
- According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively…
- TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're…
- We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
- If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
- We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may…
- What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all…
- The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of…
- The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases…
- There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal,…
- 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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