We're putting more carbon into the atmosphere than the atmosphere can absorb. And everybody told us when we started, coz we knew… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in… — 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
[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the… — 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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