People Quotes by Bill McKibben
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People in low‑lying Bangladesh face daily survival while carbon emissions rise beyond what the atmosphere can absorb. McKibben warns that online petitions can become a false comfort, urging unconventional political action and deeper personal commitment to climate change. He also notes that those less dependent on fossil fuels can more easily imagine large‑scale change.
![“To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says "oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised" people pay no attention.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a3d/bill-mckibben-1057_analogies_to-me-the-analogy-to-climate-change-is-d_2556508.jpg)
![“The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/861/bill-mckibben-1057_awareness_the-polling-data-shows-not-an-unbelievab_1822096.jpg)
![“All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/392/bill-mckibben-1057_activism_all-the-signs-of-incipient-activism-and_897808.jpg)
![“To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and get some percentage of them active than to try and stamp out the last embers of pre-scientific thought.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b4d/bill-mckibben-1057_active_to-me-it-s-more-important-to-take-the-60_1820631.jpg)
![“There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/69a/bill-mckibben-1057_degrade_there-is-nothing-that-will-discombobulat_1502436.jpg)
![“When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0b6/bill-mckibben-1057_black_when-we-work-all-over-the-planet-it-s-mo_1220031.jpg)
![“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a95/bill-mckibben-1057_arctic_permafrost-in-the-soil-is-melting-in-the_2297826.jpg)
