Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.… — 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
There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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 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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