We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize,… — 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
Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level… — 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
