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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
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I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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