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The world's most powerful governments and corporations will not act if they are not pressured from below. (p 181)

— Aviva Chomsky Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice (2022)

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We need to bring issues together because we need to bring people together to build the power necessary to create change. (page 140)

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We need to understand the system in order to change it. (page 140)

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Confronting climate change means understanding how we got to this point, and challenging some of the basic ways our society and economy are organized. (page xvii)

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