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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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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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With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you dont need to mine uranium for the next thousand years. – James Hansen

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Technology
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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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Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die. – Gil Stern

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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. – Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980

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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared. – Jack Handey

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A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. – Author Unknown

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Random Quotes

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. – George Canning

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Failure

Im a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves. – Rachel Roy

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respect

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so theyre forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again. – Claudia Black

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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