Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to… — 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
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in… — 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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