Earth Quotes 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…

— Bill McKibben

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

— 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.

— 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…

— Bill McKibben

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

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Bill McKibben

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

— 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…

— 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…

— Bill McKibben

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

— 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…

— Bill McKibben