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We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond wh

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. – James Hansen

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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. – James Hansen

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Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that. – James Hansen

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Politics
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Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your countrys. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap. – James Hansen

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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! – Paul MacCready,Jr.

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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. – E.Knight

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Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! – Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. – David Hume

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I can put my legs behind my head and sing Happy Birthday. Because thats something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy. – Emmy Rossum

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Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But thats not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. Thats the only way to travel. – Kiran Ahluwalia

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