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'''''May 22, 2016'''''

''From TomDispatch [http://www.tomdispatch.com www.tomdispatch.com]''

> '''''Who imagined''''' ''that a small number of environmentalists running an obscure organization called [http://350.org/about/team/ 350.org] would help spark a climate-change movement that would spread globally in a startling fashion, mount a [http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/17/nation/la-na-nn-climate-change-rally-washington-20130217 large demonstration in Washington] and others across the planet, venture [http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/arctic-impacts/Peace-Dove/Arctic-30/ into the Arctic] and [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/31/portland-bridge-shell-protest-kayaktivists-fennica-reaction by kayak] into the waters of the American West, and actually [http://www.npr.org/2015/11/06/455048998/obama-rejects-plans-to-build-keystone-xl-pipeline stop] the building of a pipeline slated to carry the carbon-dirtiest of energy sources from [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/business/energy-environment/canadas-oil-sands-industry-staggers-after-a-devastating-fire.html now-ravaged Alberta, Canada], to the American Gulf Coast, and -- with a growing [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/22/3704205/divestment-movement-50-times-bigger-in-one-year/ divestment movement] and other activities -- put the fear of god into the most profitable and influential corporations on the planet?''


<big>'''''Yes, who imagined?'''''</big>


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''In the early day of [http://www.GreenPolicy360 GreenPolicy360], our advisor Bill McKibben was imagining what could be done as he initiated [http://www.350.org 350.org].''

''A tip of our hat to adventurers who imagine what can be done'' 

''And to all of us who act to make it happen!''


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