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My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

Bill McKibben

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Bill McKibben
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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