When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain … - George Monbiot

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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist

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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

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People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

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We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

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. . . every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

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