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title: "2 Keystone Quotes By Bill McKibben"
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> [That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well aware of what this industry is about. It engages not only in those kind of practices, polluting people's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/that-s-why-people-are-standing-up-again-to-fight-the-keystone/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-spend-a-lot-of-time-playing-defence-against-bad-things-so-in-the/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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## 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/)

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