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There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.
~ Alex Steffen
Differently
Fact
In Fact
Jump
Law
Make
New
New Ways
No Law
Opposite
Physics
Planet
Quite
Ready
Says
Society
Start
Things
Think
Unsustainable
Us
Ways
Work
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There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.
~ Alex Steffen
Ahead
Air
Believe
Centuries
Change
Choose
Climate
Climate Change
Come
Dealing
Descendants
Ethical
Game
Hands
Happen
I Believe
Just
Our
Over
Pathway
Reality
Really
Right
Rosy
Say
Scenario
Throw
Up
Whatever
Where
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We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.
~ Alex Steffen
Build
Future
Hardest
Hardest Part
Many
Need
New
New Way
Part
Really
Sustainable
Technologies
Thinking
Tools
Way
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We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.
~ Alex Steffen
Achieve
Build
Challenges
Democracy
Environmentally
Everybody
Face
How
Human
Know
Make
Necessary
Planet
Rights
Society
Stability
Sustainable
Through
Which
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We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
~ Alex Steffen
Carbon
Chemical
Depend
Depth
Diversity
Ecological
Ecosystems
Gas
Health
Including
Just
Life
Limits
Multitude
Need
New
Prosperity
Real
Respecting
Shared
Still
Supplies
Toxic
War
Water
While
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We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.
~ Alex Steffen
Actions
Cans
Consumer
Crush
Different
Getting
How
Importance
Level
Little
Manufacturing
Many
Matter
More
Need
Personal
Recycling
System
Us
Very
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We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
~ Alex Steffen
About
Change
Change Things
Corrupt
Democratic
Developing
Developing World
Fairer
Forget
Freer
Get
Less
Literally
Little
Millions
Millions Of People
More
News
Often
Out
People
Struggling
Things
World
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We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.
~ Alex Steffen
Bad
Change
Changed
Climate
Continue
Game
Less
Live
Making
Matter
Now
Planet
Playing
Preventing
Problem
Rather
Than
Unfortunately
Where
Will
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We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.
~ Alex Steffen
21st Century
Becoming
Blunt
Carbon
Century
Cities
Civilization
Depends
Economy
Major
Make
New
Our
Planet
Power
Success
Thousand
Too
Within
Zero
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We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.
~ Alex Steffen
Afford
American
Billions
Continue
Developing
Developing World
Driving
Even
Everyone
Go
Going
Life
Like
Lives
Living
Malls
More
More People
Neither
Ourselves
People
Persuade
Planet
Planetary
Recipe
Shopping
Suburbs
Suicide
Way
Which
Without
World
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What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
~ Alex Steffen
Caffeine
Chance
Creative
Creative People
Friends
Impress
Interesting
Makes
People
Problems
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When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.
~ Alex Steffen
After
Blow
Break
Death
Dinner
Family
Felt
First
Hit
Internet
Last
Long
People
Really
Society
Started
Straw
Suburbs
Television
Totally
Would
Would-Be
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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.
~ Alex Steffen
Bumper
Buying
Change
Change The World
Earth
Form
Future
Hair
Hiding
Humanity
Ingenuity
Muster
Pursuing
Save
Shirt
Vision
Wearing
Woods
World
You
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