[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close… — 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
The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world… — 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
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
We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities?… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over… — 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
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
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
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto… — 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
Winning slowly is another way of losing. Americans are screwing up our health care system again right now. That's going to cause… — 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
The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem:… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry… — 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
... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be… — 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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![“The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7aa/bill-mckibben-1057_book_the-real-tight-interface-is-between-the_891981.jpg)
![“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a95/bill-mckibben-1057_arctic_permafrost-in-the-soil-is-melting-in-the_2297826.jpg)
![“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c32/bill-mckibben-1057_administration_if-you-look-at-the-polling-data-long-bef_672851.jpg)
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