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Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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Science, of course, replaced God as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.
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