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Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.


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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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