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
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
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
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
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — 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'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 was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem:… — 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
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
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 why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/bill-mckibben-1057_arctic_permafrost-in-the-soil-is-melting-in-the_2297826.jpg)
![“When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/bill-mckibben-1057_black_when-we-work-all-over-the-planet-it-s-mo_1220031.jpg)
![“All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/bill-mckibben-1057_climate_all-the-science-in-the-last-few-years-or_1524298.jpg)
