The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent . — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Calculations by Plass (1956) indicate that a ten percent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide would increase the average temperature by 0.36 degrees… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The Keeling Curve Courtesy the NASA Earth Observatory. NASA graph by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the NOAA Climate Monitoring… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go into the making of our climates and weather,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“If you believe that astronauts have been to the moon and that the world is not flat, then you probably believe the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
“The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
“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,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
![“[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b7/bill-mckibben-1057_bad-thing_barack-obama-done-some-good-things-he-s_875022.jpg)
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