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We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency.
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So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet...
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"We are evaporating our coal mines into the air."
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At the same time we must ensure that in mobilizing globally, we do not invite the establishment of ideological conformity and a new lock-step "ism".
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This new consciousness requires expanding the possibilities inherent in all humanity.
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Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life's work...
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...unfairly labeling him, "The Merchant of Death" because of his invention---dynamite.
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...an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.
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...with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.
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It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years
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we never intended to cause all of this destruction
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It is time to make peace with the planet.
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Buth there is hopeful news as well; we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst-though not all- of its consequences.
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Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself.
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These were calls to come to the defense of the common future.
