The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees." — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've… — 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
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
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
It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — 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 Image
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/a95/bill-mckibben-1057_arctic_permafrost-in-the-soil-is-melting-in-the_2297826.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/b54/bill-mckibben-1057_average_fossil-fuel-is-very-seductive-stuff-john_2619536.jpg)
