Quote by Jeff Goodell
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the reali

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words climate change in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. – Jeff Goodell

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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production. – Jeff Goodell

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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. – Jeff Goodell

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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow

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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. – Harvey Fierstein

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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. – Charles Eames

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A change in bad habits leads to a change in life. – Jenny Craig

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