Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED… — 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 polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem:… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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… — 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
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — 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
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — 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
If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision… — 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
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
Winning slowly is another way of losing. Americans are screwing up our health care system again right now. That's going to cause… — 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
![“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)
![“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)
![“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c32/bill-mckibben-1057_administration_if-you-look-at-the-polling-data-long-bef_672851.jpg)
