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Country Quotes by Bill McKibben

14 Country quotes by Bill McKibben

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McKibben’s fourteen snippets on country are concise yet pointed, reflecting his climate‑focused lens on national policy. This short set works well as an entry point for those wanting to see how environmental concerns intersect with ideas of nationhood.

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Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this…

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If you consider that there are a million people forced out of their homes by Katrina, multiply that by 150, and then…

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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 .

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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms…

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All the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising…

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I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate…

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People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really…

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The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been…

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When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're…

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These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,…

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Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with…

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It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the…

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Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction…

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At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you…

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I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…

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Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

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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.

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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…

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What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

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“The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones…

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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

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“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,…

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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…

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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…

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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

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We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back…

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everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely…

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The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

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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…

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