When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is… — 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
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — 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
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted,… — 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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“A simple calculation shows that the temperature in the arctic regions would rise about eight to nine degrees Celsius, if the carbonic… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.… — 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
We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its… — 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
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
“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
I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“If you believe that astronauts have been to the moon and that the world is not flat, then you probably believe the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to… — 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 would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the… — 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
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves. — 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
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the 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
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures. — 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
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent . — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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