[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully… — 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
There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. — 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
It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto… — 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