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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

Bill McKibben

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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.
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