We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity. — 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
Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting. — 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
I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The… — 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
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
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
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
In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that… — 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
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