I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it… — 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
In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say… — 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
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they… — 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
I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the… — 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
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
There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I'm probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity -… — 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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