The flaw is the business plan - digging up and burning way more carbon than physics says we can deal with. So,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you were running a solar company you may be okay - you may be able to keep growing. The question for… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. 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
