The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees." — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you consider that there are a million people forced out of their homes by Katrina, multiply that by 150, and then… — 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
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
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
To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and… — 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
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
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
But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.… — 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
The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now… — 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
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
Winning slowly is another way of losing. Americans are screwing up our health care system again right now. That's going to cause… — 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
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
To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and… — 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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the… — 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
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
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
If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties". — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze… — 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
![“All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/392/bill-mckibben-1057_activism_all-the-signs-of-incipient-activism-and_897808.jpg)
![“To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says "oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised" people pay no attention.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3d/bill-mckibben-1057_analogies_to-me-the-analogy-to-climate-change-is-d_2556508.jpg)
![“The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/861/bill-mckibben-1057_awareness_the-polling-data-shows-not-an-unbelievab_1822096.jpg)
![“There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/69a/bill-mckibben-1057_degrade_there-is-nothing-that-will-discombobulat_1502436.jpg)
![“To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and get some percentage of them active than to try and stamp out the last embers of pre-scientific thought.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4d/bill-mckibben-1057_active_to-me-it-s-more-important-to-take-the-60_1820631.jpg)
![“When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b6/bill-mckibben-1057_black_when-we-work-all-over-the-planet-it-s-mo_1220031.jpg)
![“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c32/bill-mckibben-1057_administration_if-you-look-at-the-polling-data-long-bef_672851.jpg)
![“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a95/bill-mckibben-1057_arctic_permafrost-in-the-soil-is-melting-in-the_2297826.jpg)
