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Notes"If global warming were the work of an evil engineer, he’d deserve congratulations on a job well done."Adam Alter, author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors, in The Huffington Post on why we should be more concerned about global warming.
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Notes"To truly fix the oil sands, we need our government to actually govern—that is, to protect the public interest by regulating polluting companies….we need to put a price on pollution and demand higher royalties from Big Oil."Tzeporah Berman, environmentalist and author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, in The Globe and Mail.
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Notes"If our recently devised economic system endangers the air, water, land and biodiversity that we rely on for our health and survival, [then] we must come up with something better."Legendary environmentalist David Suzuki, from his blog.
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"The future we create can in many ways be brighter than what we have now, even with all the consequences we’ve already set in motion."
Alex Steffen, talking with TreeHugger about his new project Carbon Zero, which argues that re-imagining our cities may be the only way to avoid planetary catastrophe.
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"Hurricane Sandy could cost the nation a staggering $50 billion…But Hurricane Sandy was not an isolated event. Indeed, the incidence of extreme events is far more frequent."
Erwann Michel-Kerjan, from a recent New York Times Op-Ed on how America can better prepare for future disasters.
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Notes"Soon the excuse ‘it’s too expensive to change’ will no longer be accepted. It will be too expensive not to."Legendary world leader on global climate change & human rights, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, in a recent keynote.
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In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal, Lavin speaker and climate scientist Laurence C. Smith outlined his vision of the world in 2050—a warmer, wetter planet where the once-frozen North emerges as the new center of economic growth. Here’s Smith:
Much of the planet’s northern quarter of latitude, including the Arctic, is poised to undergo tremendous transformation over the next century. As a booming population increases the demand for the Earth’s natural resources, and as lands closer to the equator face the prospect of rising water demand, droughts and other likely changes, the prominence of northern countries will rise along with their projected milder winters.
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Legendary environmentalist David Suzuki and The End of Growth author Jeff Rubin set off on a multi-city speaking tour to explore the vital connection between the economics community and the environmental movement.
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Notes"This is heading into the largest environmental battle of the decade. It is not just about the impacts of—not potential but likely—oil spills along the route. It is also about the impacts of increased and dangerous tanker traffic. And it is also a symbol and an organizing focal point for those concerned about the fact that this government has not put into place a single policy to reduce global warming pollution."-Tzeporah Berman, on the Northern Gateway Pipeline—the latest Alberta tar sands pipeline under scrutiny, in The Vancouver Sun.
