Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you consider that there are a million people forced out of their homes by Katrina, multiply that by 150, and then… — 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
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent . — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate… — 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
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
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
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
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
Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction… — 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
