People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really… — 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… — 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… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's… — 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
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the… — 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
Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have… — 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
Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this… — 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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