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
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
That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really… — 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 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
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril,… — 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
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
But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day. — 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
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