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Service Employees International Union president Andy Stern answers questions from reporters at a press conference for the Change to Win Coalition, Sunday, July 24, 2005, in Chicago. Four major unions representing one-third of the AFL-CIO's 13 million members decided to boycott the organizations convention, which begins Monday. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)

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Cass Sunstein, administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs On redistributing the wealth: "Redistribution from the United States to poor people in poor nations would be highly desirable, but expenditures on greenhouse gas reductions are a crude means of producing that redistribution. It would be much better to give cash payments directly to people who are now poor.""We agree, however, that if the United States does spend a great deal on emissions reductions as part of an international agreement, and if the agreement does give particular help to disadvantaged people, considerations of distributive justice support its action even if better redistributive mechanisms are imaginable."

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Van Jones, environmental advocate On gray capitalism: "Inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1954 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country. And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we're not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond systems of exploitation and oppression altogether, but that's a process." | Watch the clip

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Anita Dunn in her Washington office, Friday, May 23, 2008. As the marathon Democratic primary campaign nears an end, Obama's staff is on the verge of vindicating its belief that the eloquent black freshman senator was a unique candidate who could win the Democratic nomination. The band of Obama loyalists who imagined that could happen have stunned even themselves with their success against Hillary Rodham Clinton. The campaign is rapidly adding new people, like experienced communications strategist Dunn, who is married to campaign general counsel Bob Bauer and recently joined Obama's inner circle. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 17, 2007 file photo, John Holdren, professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, speaks at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy presentations in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

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Maurice Strong, former director, U.N. Environmental Program On a collapsed economy: "Paradoxically, the way to remove the threat of climate change is for the economy to continue to degenerate, because as the economy degenerates of course there are fewer emissions, and that's actually happening. But to use that as a pretext for saying, 'well, now we don't have to worry about it.' The cost to our economy would be — would we really want to do that? I want to see climate change corrected. In fact, I believe very strongly in it, but I don't want to do it at the expense of a collapsed economy, but a collapsed economy would certainly produce that effect." On population growth: "Licenses to have babies, incidentally, is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting, even in Canada, that this might be necessary at some point." | Watch the clip

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Former Vice President Al Gore speaks about the new Google Earth 5.0 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Google Inc. is launching a new version of Google Earth that will let users explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch the Earth's surface change over time. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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