Climate Quotes by Bill McKibben

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

— Bill McKibben

“Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action The Evangelical Climate Initiative 2006”

— Bill McKibben

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

— Bill McKibben

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

— Bill McKibben

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

— Bill McKibben

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

— Bill McKibben

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

— Bill McKibben

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

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I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

— Bill McKibben

We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to…

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There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

— Bill McKibben

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than…

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Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.

— Bill McKibben

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

— Bill McKibben

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.

— Bill McKibben

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

I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations…

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In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and…

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I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched…

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The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon…

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Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change…

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[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number…

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My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and…

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We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We…

— Bill McKibben

The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in…

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Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of…

— Bill McKibben

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the…

— Bill McKibben

Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US…

— Bill McKibben

“The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis,…

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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

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

“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;…

— Bill McKibben

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

— Bill McKibben

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

— Bill McKibben

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

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Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

— Bill McKibben

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

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of…

— Bill McKibben