The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production. — 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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 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