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chamber of commerce changes approach to climate change

December 27, 2019November 16, 2019 by Neal

AS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL lobbying groups in the country, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long been a central player in the network of organizations seeding denial about climate change. Its work includes spending millions of dollars influencing elections and lobbying in support of new oil and gas development, rollbacks of U.S. methane regulations, and the repeal of the Clean Power Plan. READ MORE

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“We cannot do it all at once, it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. We can only hope. And try. One some other world, possibly it is different. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components." – Phil Dick, The Man In The High Castle

"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.” – Jay Inslee

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” – Gaylord Nelson

"The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” – John Paul II

"The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

“I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were fiction.” Leonardo DiCaprio

“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.” – Al Gore

"Go into the world and do well, but more importantly, go into the world and do good." – Minor Myers Jr., President of Illinois Wesleyan University

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.” – Henry David Thoreau

"The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” – Noam Chomsky

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble—it's what you know that just ain't so." – Mark Twain

"I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats." – Eckhart Tolle