Quotes by Alex Steffen - Page 2

There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.
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Climate Change
Descendants
Ethical
Rosy
Ahead
Centuries
Dealing
Pathway
Scenario
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People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.
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Real World
Geeks
Sealed
The Real World
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The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
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Isolation
Mass
Mass Media
Mentality
Phenomenal
Understood
Opposite
Breakthroughs
Bunker
Poorly
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There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.
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Work
Home
Decision
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Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.
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Cities
Creation
Decision
Energy
Etc
Majority
Products
Resources
Designed
Vast
Percentage
Pour
Systems
Vast Majority
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It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.
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Average
Materials
Prosperous
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Nicer
Powered
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Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.
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Environmental
Chewing
Climate
Climate Change
Collapse
Different Ways
Discrete
Tomorrow
Currently
Designed
Fundamentally
Imminent
No Future
So Many Different Ways
Symptom
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There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it is possible and more practical to talk about rebuilding systems to use much less energy than it is to think about trying to meet greater demands of energy through clean energy alone.
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Clean
Clean Energy
Different Ways
Prosperous
Rebuilding
Practical
Systems
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We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.
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Billions
Developing
Driving
Malls
Shopping
Suburbs
Suicide
Living
Afford
Developing World
Life World Living
More People
Neither
Persuade
Planet
Recipe
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We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
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Carbon
Depth
Ecological
Ecosystems
Gas
Including
Supplies
Toxic
Atmospheric
Chemical
Depend
Multitude
Respecting
Shared
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There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.
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Closets
Etc
Maintenance
Plenty
Storage
Lots
Finding
Giant
Packed
Spaces
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If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.
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Prospects
Businesses
Communities
Governments
Make A Difference
Transform
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For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
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Cities
Consumption
Etc
Goods
Green
Impact
Important Things
Patterns
Talking
Actions
Buildings
Change Energy Important
Fraction
Impacts
Provide
Sharing
Transit
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To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
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Cities
Creativity
Innovation
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