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" It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling. "

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" Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. "

" The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. "

" In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous? "

" When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term. "

" CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past. "

" I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. "

" Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights. "

" As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. "

" Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. "

" Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place. "

" Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. "

" There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. "

" A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. "

" Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. "

" A zebra does not change its spots. "

" If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. "

" I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head. "

" I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. "

" Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally. "

" The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world. "

" Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. "

" When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. "