The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees." — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity -… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the… — 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
The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but… — 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
