If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — 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
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