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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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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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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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There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. – Brooke Medicine Eagle

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Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead. – Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, 1977

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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. – Ian McHarg

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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Im at peace. – Christina Aguilera

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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. – Matthew Henry

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