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title: "6 Coal Quotes By Bill McKibben"
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> [There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/there-is-basically-no-one-not-on-the-payroll-of-exxon-mobil-or-coal/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/i-think-the-world-on-the-other-side-of-fossil-fuel-is-more-local-the/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [ Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. \[John Maynard\] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/fossil-fuel-is-very-seductive-stuff-john-maynard-keynes-once-said/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/there-is-an-urgent-need-to-stop-subsidizing-the-fossil-fuel-industry/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/if-we-all-used-clotheslines-we-could-save-30-million-tons-of-coal-a/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e3/bill-mckibben-1057_afternoon_if-we-all-used-clotheslines-we-could-sav_2789731.jpg)

> [We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-spend-a-lot-of-time-playing-defence-against-bad-things-so-in-the/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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## Other authors on Coal

## More by Bill McKibben

> [I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/i-try-not-to-be-either-optimistic-or-pessimistic-i-try-not-to-think/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/oil-companies-are-radical-because-they-re-willing-to-alter-the/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/whenever-anyone-challenges-anything-the-powers-that-be-try-to-paint/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/my-guess-is-that-liberating-the-fossil-fuel-industry-to-frack/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/what-makes-us-different-we-re-the-creature-that-can-decide-not-to-do/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [“The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/the-snow-was-coming-down-so-hard-it-looked-like-the-flakes-were/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/most-of-the-men-and-women-who-vote-in-congress-each-year-to-continue/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/i-ve-sat-behind-a-microphone-and-listened-for-decades-as-americans/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/people-in-low-lying-countries-like-bangladesh-with-almost-140-million/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-re-putting-more-carbon-into-the-atmosphere-than-the-atmosphere-can/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/everything-that-the-administration-has-done-has-been-counterproductive/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-use-the-web-to-help-people-organize-in-the-flesh-and-then-we-take/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/everyone-knows-at-some-level-that-the-sharp-line-between-good-weather/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/the-thing-about-global-warming-is-that-you-can-address-it-on-a-great/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/where-people-aren-t-as-deeply-reliant-on-fossil-fuel-as-in-the-united/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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