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Climate Quotes by Bill McKibben

139 Climate quotes by Bill McKibben

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Oil companies altering the atmosphere shows the writer’s view that fossil fuels are changing the sky on a massive scale. He warns we are adding more carbon than the air can hold, that many levels of action are needed, and that climate change—already warming the planet about one degree Fahrenheit—is the biggest thing humans have done.

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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

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In the end, climate change is a math problem.

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We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

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I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

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Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

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Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

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We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free

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Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence…

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Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

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We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

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Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far…

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Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be…

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We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from…

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We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's…

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There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's…

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I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best…

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The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day…

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Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago.…

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There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing…

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Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I…

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We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy…

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“the coalition of Latin American and African governments making the case for climate debt actually stresses difference, zeroing in on the cruel…

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“World Climate Review: “The fact is that the artifice of climate-change-as-apocalypse is crumbling faster than Cuba…. There is genuine fear in the…

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Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with…

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These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,…

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In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that…

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“The End of Nature was the first book for a general audience about global warming; it came out in 1989 and soon…

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In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.…

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Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them…

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“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;…

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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

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In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

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“Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action The Evangelical Climate Initiative 2006”

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We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

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In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

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It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that…

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If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value…

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I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…

Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to…

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

“The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones…

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

“I’ve sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions,…

People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated…

We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew nothing when…

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back…

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely…

The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this…