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Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bigger Bigger Picture Blind Carbon Catastrophe Change Climate Climate Change Co2 Court Everything Lens Letting Make Make No Mistake Mistake Obsession Our Picture Reductions See Short-Term Tackling Through Us Vital

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Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Change Chewing Climate Climate Change Collapse Could Currently Designed Different Different Ways Environmental Fast Find Fundamentally Future Imminent Issue Larger Many No Future Our Planet Problem Problems So Many Different Ways Society Solve Still Symptom Tomorrow Up Ways

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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

Topics: 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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The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Breakthroughs Bunker Car Changing Create Does Ideas Internet Isolation Long Made Mass Mass Media Media Mentality Only Opposite People Phenomenal Poorly Social Some Still Suburbs Terms Them Understood Us

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People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Better Created Geeks How Internet Look People Real Real World Rest Sealed Something The Real World Use Want Way Who World

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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

Topics: Actions Cans Consumer Crush Different Getting How Importance Level Little Manufacturing Many Matter More Need Personal Recycling System Us Very

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It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Anything Average Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Just Like Lives Living Materials Nicer Now Percent Possible Powered Prosperous Simply Use Very Way

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The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

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Topics: Amount Around Energy Get Lower People Places Use

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The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.

~Alex Steffen

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If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Attention Decide Else Ideas Internet Nothing Out Paying People Put Whether World Worth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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