I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now… — 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
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
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in… — 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
“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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
![“The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/bill-mckibben-1057_awareness_the-polling-data-shows-not-an-unbelievab_1822096.jpg)
![“I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/bill-mckibben-1057_asks_i-m-probably-the-wrong-person-to-ask-my_2407724.jpg)
![“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b54/bill-mckibben-1057_average_fossil-fuel-is-very-seductive-stuff-john_2619536.jpg)
![“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c32/bill-mckibben-1057_administration_if-you-look-at-the-polling-data-long-bef_672851.jpg)
![“[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b7/bill-mckibben-1057_bad-thing_barack-obama-done-some-good-things-he-s_875022.jpg)
![“I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/bill-mckibben-1057_aids_i-m-guessing-the-most-efficient-way-woul_1988835.jpg)
