We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
Interpretation
We must choose between preserving the Earth's environment and supporting fossil fuel companies.
This quote emphasizes the urgent need to address climate change by highlighting the conflict between environmental conservation and the interests of fossil fuel executives. It suggests that continuing to support fossil fuel companies will hinder efforts to combat global warming and that a decision must be made on which path to take for the future of the planet.
In practice
This quote can be used during environmental rallies to encourage action against climate change.
The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
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