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A destabilized climate is the cost of deregulated, global capitalism, its unintended, yet unavoidable consequence.39

It's impossible to say how much the decision to use the tsunami as an opportunity for disaster capitalism contributed to the return to civil war.

society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.

Public scarcity in times of unprecedented private wealth is a manufactured crisis, designed to extinguish our dreams before they have a chance to be born.

We need to build a society around the understanding that well-being for all matters more than economic growth. Only then can we truly move away from climate0changing pollution and climate injustice.

We have the best brand on earth: the Obama brand," she said. "Our possibilities are endless.

when climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth. It's not (only) because they are paranoid. It's also because they are paying attention.

the global food system now accounts for between 19 and 29 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions.

created a performance-based image that was impossible to shame—because his brand was being shameless.

Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.

They mean, quite simply, that climate change has become an existential crisis for the human species.

I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.

I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation.

All shall love me and despair,' " I said. She was eyeing me very dubiously. "Galadriel? In Lord of the Rings?

A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true; the proving makes it so.

You'd rather run away and wallow in angst than ask for help or anything else horrible like that.

The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.

her fire was roaring, her silhouette raising showers of orange sparks with a hammer made of shadow.

More or less, I informed the eldritch horror it had no business existing with so much aggression, that I shoved it entirely out of reality.

As happy as I would be to forgo the very doubtful pleasure of watching you flop about like an exhausted eel over the least cantrip," he bit out, "we've already seen the consequences of leaving you to your own devices.

I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha'pence for any empire other than our valley, if that can content your ambition.

I'm delighted to report my repaired door slammed shut on his heels beautifully.

You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I

They all claim to have been built by the author of the Golden Stone sutras, this guy named Purochana who some wizard historians believe was the guy of that name who also shows up in the Mahabharata, more or less working for the prince of Gandhara.