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My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.

~Alex Pettyfer

Topics: Admire Also Better Biggest Change Change The World Dad Environment Great He Heroes Humanitarian Inspiration Know Lot Love Make Model Necessarily Newman Paul People People Say Role Role Model Say Think Try Want Who World I Love

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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: According Basically Change Climate Climate Change Dirt Done Dry First Form Island Land Last Mythology North Survived Until Up Years Years Ago

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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bumper Buying Change Change The World Earth Form Future Hair Hiding Humanity Ingenuity Muster Pursuing Save Shirt Vision Wearing Woods World You

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I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Change Factor Gap Generation Generation Gap Gigantic How How Much Important Internet Much People Social Social Change Technology Terms Think Understand I Think

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In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Able Almost Almost All America Block Change City Governments Group People Small Small Group Want Who

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For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Actions Building Buildings Change Choose Cities Consumption Energy Etc Fraction Goods Green How Impacts Important Important Things Most Need Our Patterns Priority Provide Sharing Talking The Most Important Things Those Transit Transportation Use Worth

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We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Change Change Things Corrupt Democratic Developing Developing World Fairer Forget Freer Get Less Literally Little Millions Millions Of People More News Often Out People Struggling Things World

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The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Able Actually Change Currently Energy Entire Going Idea Make Our Reality Simply Society Source Sustainable Take Works

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We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bad Change Changed Climate Continue Game Less Live Making Matter Now Planet Playing Preventing Problem Rather Than Unfortunately Where Will

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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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