A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the… — 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
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
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
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — 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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