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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're… — 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
Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US… — 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
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity 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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