--- title: "6 Enormous Quotes By Bill McKibben" description: "6 Enormous quotes by Bill McKibben. Plus more from Bill McKibben and more Enormous sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d3/bill-mckibben-1057_amount_so-far-the-earth-has-warmed-about-a-degr_269768.jpg" --- > [So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/so-far-the-earth-has-warmed-about-a-degree-fahrenheit-globally/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d3/bill-mckibben-1057_amount_so-far-the-earth-has-warmed-about-a-degr_269768.jpg) > [There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/there-s-no-huge-mystery-if-you-dig-up-huge-amounts-of-carbon-huge/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/bill-mckibben-1057_amount_there-s-no-huge-mystery-if-you-dig-up-hu_502931.jpg) > [TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/tv-and-the-culture-it-anchors-masks-and-drowns-out-the-subtle-and/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d3/bill-mckibben-1057_anchors_tv-and-the-culture-it-anchors-masks-and_1513920.jpg) > [All the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/all-the-things-that-we-ve-done-as-a-species-have-had-a-limited-scope/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/bill-mckibben-1057_caps_all-the-things-that-we-ve-done-as-a-spec_1768475.jpg) > [We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-ve-lost-half-the-summer-sea-ice-in-the-arctic-we-ve-wiped-out-an/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/867/bill-mckibben-1057_air_we-ve-lost-half-the-summer-sea-ice-in-th_1997097.jpg) > [Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/ice-in-the-west-antarctic-and-over-greenland-i-e-ice-that-s-over-a/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/bill-mckibben-1057_coast_ice-in-the-west-antarctic-and-over-green_2158721.jpg) ## Other authors on Enormous ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/i-try-not-to-be-either-optimistic-or-pessimistic-i-try-not-to-think/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) > [Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/oil-companies-are-radical-because-they-re-willing-to-alter-the/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/whenever-anyone-challenges-anything-the-powers-that-be-try-to-paint/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/my-guess-is-that-liberating-the-fossil-fuel-industry-to-frack/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) > [What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/what-makes-us-different-we-re-the-creature-that-can-decide-not-to-do/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/the-snow-was-coming-down-so-hard-it-looked-like-the-flakes-were/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/most-of-the-men-and-women-who-vote-in-congress-each-year-to-continue/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/i-ve-sat-behind-a-microphone-and-listened-for-decades-as-americans/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/people-in-low-lying-countries-like-bangladesh-with-almost-140-million/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-re-putting-more-carbon-into-the-atmosphere-than-the-atmosphere-can/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) > [Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/everything-that-the-administration-has-done-has-been-counterproductive/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-use-the-web-to-help-people-organize-in-the-flesh-and-then-we-take/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/everyone-knows-at-some-level-that-the-sharp-line-between-good-weather/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) > [The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/the-thing-about-global-warming-is-that-you-can-address-it-on-a-great/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/where-people-aren-t-as-deeply-reliant-on-fossil-fuel-as-in-the-united/) [Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enormous/bill-mckibben/#itemlist", "name": "6 Enormous Quotes By Bill McKibben", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. 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