When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens. — 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
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy… — 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
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike… — 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
It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that… — 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
People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The flaw is the business plan - digging up and burning way more carbon than physics says we can deal with. So,… — 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
“Calculations by Plass (1956) indicate that a ten percent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide would increase the average temperature by 0.36 degrees… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“World Climate Review: “The fact is that the artifice of climate-change-as-apocalypse is crumbling faster than Cuba…. There is genuine fear in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“the coalition of Latin American and African governments making the case for climate debt actually stresses difference, zeroing in on the cruel… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The Keeling Curve Courtesy the NASA Earth Observatory. NASA graph by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the NOAA Climate Monitoring… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The End of Nature was the first book for a general audience about global warming; it came out in 1989 and soon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing… — 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
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
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we… — 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
I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A… — 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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