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'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
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day. — 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
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
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
The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes… — 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
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
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
It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive… — 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
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
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 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
“The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis,… — 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
The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet. — 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
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action The Evangelical Climate Initiative 2006” — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — 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
Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;… — 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
![“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 get some percentage of them active than to try and stamp out the last embers of pre-scientific thought.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4d/bill-mckibben-1057_active_to-me-it-s-more-important-to-take-the-60_1820631.jpg)
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