Energy Quotes by Bill McKibben

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

— Bill McKibben

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

— Bill McKibben

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

— Bill McKibben

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

— Bill McKibben

I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate…

— Bill McKibben

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy…

— Bill McKibben

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable…

— 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…

— Bill McKibben

I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over…

— Bill McKibben

If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.…

— Bill McKibben

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

With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry…

— Bill McKibben

It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the…

— Bill McKibben

We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy…

— Bill McKibben

I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to…

— Bill McKibben

Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded…

— Bill McKibben

I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best…

— Bill McKibben

Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want…

— Bill McKibben

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies…

— Bill McKibben