"Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets."
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"Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.“
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"In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar."
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"But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid."
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"Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems."
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"In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
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