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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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I used to be called the Green Jack Kemp because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
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That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.
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I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
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Local politics matters a lot.
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That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
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There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.
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We're getting back what we're putting out.
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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
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We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.
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If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
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I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.
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The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.
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Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.
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I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.
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You put Hillary Clinton up against Donald Trump, I'm scared of the choice no matter what you do.
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America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.
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