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.
My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one β a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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