These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that… — 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
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to. — Bill McKibben Copy Share
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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share
