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Bill McKibben Quotes: Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
         

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.


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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.



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Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.



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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.



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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.



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