[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“A simple calculation shows that the temperature in the arctic regions would rise about eight to nine degrees Celsius, if the carbonic… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The flaw is the business plan - digging up and burning way more carbon than physics says we can deal with. So,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything… — 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
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