Real Quotes by Bill McKibben

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately,…

— Bill McKibben

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never…

— Bill McKibben

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of…

— Bill McKibben

Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

— Bill McKibben

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate…

— Bill McKibben

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence…

— Bill McKibben

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.…

— Bill McKibben

All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google…

— Bill McKibben

We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to…

— Bill McKibben

TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in…

— Bill McKibben

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

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

The consumer culture in general has washed over our civilization. For the last 50 years, if you've had a credit card and…

— Bill McKibben

There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to…

— Bill McKibben