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Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.

Bill McKibben

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Bill McKibben
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
Activist
Author
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
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Palo Alto
California
Overloading
Profiting
Carbon
Atmosphere
Companies
Changing
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Wrong

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