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“Climate change is poised to savInG The WorlD
become the most massive human
rights violation the world has
ever seen.”
–Kathleen Dean Moore

“The greatest threat to our planet
is the belief that someone else will
save it.”
–Robert Swan

“We reached the old wolf in time
to watch a fierce green fire dying in
her eyes. I realized then and have
known ever since that there was
something new to me in those
eyes, something known only to her To: You
and to the mountain. I was young FroM: busInesses In The reaDer
then and full of trigger-itch; I
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meant more deer, that no wolves
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But after seeing the green fire die, instead of in weekly junk mail
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the mountain agreed with such
a view.”
–Aldo Leopold
WATER
480,000 gallons
“We are dumping carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere at a rate the
earth hasn't seen since the great
climate catastrophes of the past. ENERGY
The ones that led to mass extinc- 768 million BTU
tions... Why can't we summon
the ingenuity and courage of the
generations that came before us?
The dinosaurs never saw that aster- TREES
oid coming. What's our excuse?” 240 tons
–Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us
that our common home is like a GREENHOUSE GASES
sister with whom we share our life 96 tons
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