There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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
Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act… — 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
We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — 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
We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to… — 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
I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because… — 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
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — 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
