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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.
At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.
We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.
If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.
We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.
Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.
We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.
I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very hard.
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.