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Humans Quotes by Bill McKibben

15 Humans quotes by Bill McKibben

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Bill McKibben’s 15 quotes cut straight to the heart of our planet‑bound existence. A climate activist and writer, his words balance urgency with a quiet optimism, urging us to consider how our choices shape the world we leave for future generations.

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Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be…

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We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one…

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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately,…

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We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

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I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in…

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Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.…

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The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril,…

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I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth…

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Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of…

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The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been…

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If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act…

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I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual…

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You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the…

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We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in…

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Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by…

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I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…

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

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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.

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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…

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

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“The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones…

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

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“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,…

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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…

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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…

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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

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We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back…

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