Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.” — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.” — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“TV was like a third parent- a source of ideas and information and impressions. and not such a bad parent- always with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“only in relatively recent times have people decided that “because I want to” is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Most of the time now we live under a kind of spell, a lulling enchantment sung by the sirens of our consumer… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's… — 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
At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go into the making of our climates and weather,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into… — 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
![“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)
