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TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
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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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If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
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Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.
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