[Reader-list] Bill Mckibben - on US inaction on CC policy

Thu Aug 5 17:10:24 IST 2010

*We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming*
ByBill McKibben<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Etomdispatch%252Ecom%252Fauthors%252Fbillmckibben%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>

Try to fit these facts together:

*According<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Edemocracynow%252Eorg%252F2010%252F7%252F29%252Fheadlines%252F2000%255F2009%255Fmarked%255Fwarmest%255Fdecade%255Fon%255Frecord%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>to
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just
come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six
months, and the warmest April, May, and June on record.

* A “staggering”
newstudy<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Escientificamerican%252Ecom%252Farticle%252Ecfm%253Fid%253Dphytoplankton%252Dpopulation%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>from
Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced
phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950.

*Nine nations<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Ewunderground%252Ecom%252Fblog%252FJeffMasters%252Fcomment%252Ehtml%253Fentrynum%253D1546%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>have
so far set their all-time temperature records in 2010, including Russia (111
degrees), Niger (118), Sudan (121), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (126 apiece), and
Pakistan, which also set thenew all-time Asia
record<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Ewunderground%252Ecom%252Fblog%252FJeffMasters%252Fcomment%252Ehtml%253Fentrynum%253D1498%2526amp%253Btstamp%253D%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>in
May: a hair under 130 degrees. I can turn my oven to 130 degrees.

* And then, in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing
about climate change. They didn’t do less than they could have -- they did*
nothing*, preserving a perfect two-decade bipartisan record of no action.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid decided not even to schedule a vote on
legislation that would have capped carbon emissions.

I wrote the first book for a general audience on global warming back in
1989, and I’ve spent the subsequent 21 years working on the issue. I’m a
mild-mannered guy, a Methodist Sunday School teacher. Not quick to anger. So
what I want to say is: this is fucked up. The time has come to get mad, and
then to get busy.

For many years, the lobbying fight for climate legislation on Capitol Hill
has been led by a collection of the most corporate and moderate
environmental groups, outfits like the Environmental Defense Fund. We owe
them a great debt, and not just for their hard work. We owe them a debt
because they did everything the way you’re supposed to: they wore nice
clothes, lobbied tirelessly, and compromised at every turn.

By the time they were done, they had a bill that only capped carbon
emissions from electric utilities (not factories or cars) and was so laden
with gifts for industry that if you listened closely you could actually hear
the oinking. They bent over backwards like Soviet gymnasts. Senator John
Kerry, the legislator they worked most closely with, issued this rallying
cry as the final negotiations began: "We believe we have compromised
significantly, and we're prepared to compromise further.”

*And even that was not enough.*They were left out to dry by everyone -- not
just Reid, not just the Republicans. Even President Obama wouldn’t lend a
hand, investing not a penny of his political capital in the fight.

The result: total defeat, no moral victories.

*Now What?*

So now we know what we didn’t before: making nice doesn’t work. It was worth
a try, and I’m completely serious when I say I’m grateful they made the
effort, but it didn’t even come close to working. So we better try something
else.

Step one involves actually talking about global warming. For years now, the
accepted wisdom in the best green circles was: talk about anything else --
energy independence, oil security, beating the Chinese to renewable
technology. I was at a session convened by the White House early in the
Obama administration where some polling guru solemnly explained that “green
jobs” polled better than “cutting carbon.”

No, really? In the end, though, all these focus-group favorites are
secondary. The task at hand is keeping the planet from melting. We need
everyone -- beginning with the president -- to start explaining that basic
fact at every turn.

It*is*the heat, and also the humidity. Since warm air holds more water than
cold, the atmosphere is about 5% moister than it was 40 years ago, which
explains the freak downpours that seem to happen someplace on this continent
every few days.

It*is*the carbon -- that’s why the seas are turning acid, a point Obama
could have made with ease while standing on the shores of the Gulf of
Mexico. “It’s bad that it’s black out there,” he might have said, “but even
if that oil had made it safely ashore and been burned in our cars, it would
still be wrecking the oceans.” Energy independence is nice, but you need a
planet to be energy independent on.

<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eamazon%252Ecom%252Fdp%252F0805090568%252Fref%253Dnosim%252F%253Ftag%253Dtomdispatch%252D20%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>Mysteriously
enough, this seems to be a particularly hard point for smart people to
grasp. Even in the wake of the disastrous Senate non-vote, the Nature
Conservancy’s climate
experttold<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Enytimes%252Ecom%252F2010%252F07%252F28%252Fopinion%252F28friedman%252Ehtml%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>
*New York Times*columnist Tom Friedman, “We have to take climate change out
of the atmosphere, bring it down to earth, and show how it matters in
people’s everyday lives.” Translation: ordinary average people can’t
possibly recognize the real stakes here, so let’s put it in language they
can understand, which is about their most immediate interests. It’s both
untrue, as I’ll show below, and incredibly patronizing. It is, however,
exactly what we’ve been doing for a decade and clearly, It Does Not Work.

Step two, we have to ask for what we actually need, not what we calculate we
might possibly be able to get. If we’re going to slow global warming in the
very short time available to us, then we don’t actually need an incredibly
complicated legislative scheme that gives door prizes to every interested
industry and turns the whole operation over toGoldman
Sachs<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Erollingstone%252Ecom%252Fpolitics%252Fnews%252F12697%252F64796%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>to
run. We need a stiff price on carbon, set by the scientific understanding
that we can’t still be burning black rocks a couple of decades hence. That
undoubtedly means upending the future business plans of Exxon and BP,
Peabody Coal and Duke Energy, not to speak of everyone else who’s made a
fortune by treating the atmosphere as an open sewer for the byproducts of
their main business.

Instead they should pay through the nose for that sewer, and here’s the
crucial thing:*most of the money raised in the process should be returned
directly to American pockets*. The monthly check sent to Americans would
help fortify us against the rise in energy costs, and we’d still be getting
the price signal at the pump to stop driving that SUV and start insulating
the house. We also need to make real federal investments in energy research
and development, to help drive down the price of alternatives -- the
Breakthrough Institutepoints
out<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthebreakthrough%252Eorg%252Fideas%252Eshtml%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>,
quite rightly, that we’re crazy to spend more of our tax dollars on research
into new drone aircraft and Mars orbiters than we do on photovoltaics.

Yes, these things are politically hard, but they’re not impossible. A
politician who really cared could certainly use, say, the platform offered
by the White House to sell a plan that taxed BP and actually gave the money
to ordinary Americans. (So far they haven’t even used the platform offered
by the White House
toreinstall<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fputsolaron%252Eit%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>the
rooftop solar panels that Jimmy Carter put there in the 1970s and Ronald
Reagan took down in his term.)

Asking for what you need doesn’t mean you’ll get all of it. Compromise still
happens. But as David Brower, the greatest environmentalist of the late
twentieth century,explained<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Ecommondreams%252Eorg%252Fviews%252F121000%252D104%252Ehtm%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>amid
the fight to save the Grand Canyon: “We are to hold fast to what we believe
is right, fight for it, and find allies and adduce all possible arguments
for our cause. If we cannot find enough vigor in us or them to win, then let
someone else propose the compromise. We thereupon work hard to coax it our
way. We become a nucleus around which the strongest force can build and
function.”

Which leads to the third step in this process. If we’re going to get any of
this done, we’re going to need a movement, the one thing we haven’t had. For
20 years environmentalists have operated on the notion that we’d get action
if we simply had scientists explain to politicians and CEOs that our current
ways wereending the
Holocene<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Etomdispatch%252Ecom%252Fpost%252F174949%252Fmike%255Fdavis%255Fwelcome%255Fto%255Fthe%255Fnext%255Fepoch%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>,
the current geological epoch. That turns out, quite conclusively, not to
work. We need to be able to explain that their current ways will end
something they actually care about, i.e. their careers. And since we’ll
never have the cash to compete with Exxon, we better work in the currencies
we can muster: bodies, spirit, passion.

*Movement Time*

As Tom Friedman put it in a
strongcolumn<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Enytimes%252Ecom%252F2010%252F07%252F25%252Fopinion%252F25friedman%252Ehtml%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>the
day after the Senate punt, the problem was that the public “never got
mobilized.” Is it possible to get people out in the streets demanding action
about climate change? Last year, with almost no money, our scruffy little
outfit,350.org<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252E350%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>,
managed to organize what*Foreign
Policy*called<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eforeignpolicy%252Ecom%252Farticles%252F2009%252F11%252F30%252Fthe%255Ffp%255Ftop%255F100%255Fglobal%255Fthinkers%253Fpage%253Dfull%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>the
“largest ever coordinated global rally of any kind” on any issue --
5,200 demonstrations in 181 countries, 2,000 of them in the U.S.A.

People were rallying not just about climate change, but around a remarkably
wonky scientific data point, 350 parts per million carbon dioxide, which
NASA’s James Hansen and his colleagues
havedemonstrated<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Farxiv%252Eorg%252Fpdf%252F0804%252E1126%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>is
the most we can have in the atmosphere if we want a planet “similar to the
one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.”
Which, come to think of it, we do. And the “we,” in this case, was not rich
white folks. If you look at the25,000 pictures in our Flickr
account<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eflickr%252Ecom%252Fphotos%252F350org%252Fsets%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>,
you’ll see that most of them were poor, black, brown, Asian, and young --
because that’s what most of the world is. No need for vice-presidents of big
conservation groups to patronize them: shrimpers in Louisiana and women in
burqas and priests in Orthodox churches and slumdwellers in Mombasa turned
out to be completely capable of understanding the threat to the future.

Those demonstrations were just a start (one we should have made long ago).
We’re following up in October -- on 10-10-10 -- with aGlobal Work
Party<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252E350%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>.
All around the country and the world people will be putting up solar panels
and digging community gardens and laying out bike paths. Not because we can
stop climate change one bike path at a time, but because we need to make a
sharp political point to our leaders: we’re getting to work, what about you?

We need to shame them, starting now. And we need everyone working together.
This movement is starting to emerge on many fronts. In September, for
instance, opponents of mountaintop removal areconverging on
DC<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fappalachiarising%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>to
demand an end to the coal trade. That same month, Tim DeChristopher goes on
trial in Salt Lake City for monkey-wrenching oil and gas auctions by
submitting phony bids. (Naomi Klein and Terry Tempest Williams have called
for folks togather
at<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Epeacefuluprising%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>the
courthouse.)

The big environmental groups are starting to wake up, too. The Sierra Club
has a dynamic new leader,Mike
Brune<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Ecare2%252Ecom%252Fcauses%252Ftrailblazers%252Fblog%252Fthe%252Dgreatest%252Dgeneration%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>,
who’s working hard with stalwarts like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.
(Note to enviro groups: working together is fun and
useful).Churches<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Finterfaithpowerandlight%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>are
getting involved, as well as mosques and synagogues.Kids are
leading<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fenergyactioncoalition%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>the
fight, all over the world -- they have to live on this planet for another 70
years or so, and they have every right to be pissed off.

*But no one will come out to fight for watered down and weak
legislation.*That’s
not how it works. You don’t get a movement unless you take the other two
steps I’ve described.

And in any event it won’t work overnight. We’re not going to get the Senate
to act next week, or maybe even next year. It took a decade after the
Montgomery bus boycott to get the Voting Rights Act. But if there hadn’t
been a movement, then the Voting Rights Act would have passed in… never. We
may need to get arrested. We definitely need art, and music, and
disciplined, nonviolent, but very real anger.

Mostly, we need to tell the truth, resolutely and constantly. Fossil fuel is
wrecking the one earth we’ve got. It’s not going to go away because we ask
politely. If we want a world that works, we’re going to have to raise our
voices.

*Bill McKibben is founder
of350.org<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252E350%252Eorg%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>and
the author, most recently, ofEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New
Planet<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eamazon%252Ecom%252Fdp%252F0805090568%252Fref%253Dnosim%252F%253Ftag%253Dtomdispatch%252D20%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>.
Earlier this year the Boston
Globecalled<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eboston%252Ecom%252Fae%252Fbooks%252Farticles%252F2010%252F05%252F30%252Ffacing%255Fcold%255Fhard%255Ftruths%255Fabout%255Fglobal%255Fwarming%252F%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>him
“probably the country’s leading environmentalist” and
Timedescribed<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Etime%252Ecom%252Ftime%252Fmagazine%252Farticle%252F0%252C9171%252C1982309%252C00%252Ehtml%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>him
as “the planet’s best green journalist.” He’s a scholar in residence at
Middlebury College. To hear him discuss why the public needs to lead the
fight against global warming**in Timothy MacBain's latest TomCast audio
interview,**clickhere<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftomdispatch%252Eblogspot%252Ecom%252F2010%252F08%252Fpressure%252Dcooking%252Ehtml%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>or,
to download it to your
iPod,<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fclick%252Elinksynergy%252Ecom%252Ffs%252Dbin%252Fclick%253Fid%253Dj0SS4Al%252FiVI%2526amp%253Bsubid%253D%2526amp%253Bofferid%253D146261%252E1%2526amp%253Btype%253D10%2526amp%253Btmpid%253D5573%2526amp%253BRD%255FPARM1%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fitunes%252Eapple%252Ecom%25252Fus%25252Fpodcast%25252Ftomcast%252Dfrom%252Dtomdispatch%252Dcom%25252Fid357095817%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>
here<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erediffmail%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fred%2Ecgi%3Fred%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fclick%252Elinksynergy%252Ecom%252Ffs%252Dbin%252Fclick%253Fid%253Dj0SS4Al%252FiVI%2526amp%253Bsubid%253D%2526amp%253Bofferid%253D146261%252E1%2526amp%253Btype%253D10%2526amp%253Btmpid%253D5573%2526amp%253BRD%255FPARM1%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fitunes%252Eapple%252Ecom%25252Fus%25252Fpodcast%25252Ftomcast%252Dfrom%252Dtomdispatch%252Dcom%25252Fid357095817%26amp%3BisImage%3D0%26amp%3BBlockImage%3D0&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>
.*

Copyright 2010 Bill McKibben

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