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Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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If Apple is enslaving Chinese to make its iPhones, you don't need to eat the i-Phone, you need to make sure that Apple is paying a living wage to someone, and then it adds a dollar to the cost of iphones, and everybody's cool.
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At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.
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If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying we're severing our ties.
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