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One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when we started - we still don't know very much - but everybody told us 'this is crazy, you don't use a scientific data point, it's a number, people don't respond to numbers'.
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TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.
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I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.
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A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.
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When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.
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Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.
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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.
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