We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act… — 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 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
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
Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — 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
![“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b54/bill-mckibben-1057_average_fossil-fuel-is-very-seductive-stuff-john_2619536.jpg)
