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We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.
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