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“Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.”

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Van Jones is a civil rights advocate and political activist, born on September 20, 1968. He is known for his involvement in social and environmental justice movements, particularly in the fight against climate change and racial inequality. more

“Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.”

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Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.”

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Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”

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Author:William Cowper

“I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.”

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Author:Will Wynn

“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”

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Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.”

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Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.”

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Author:William H. Calvin

“Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.”

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Author:William H. Calvin

“If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.”

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Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.”

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Author:William H. Calvin

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