So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike… — 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 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year'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
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
From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We'd won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us… — 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
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent . — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000… — 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
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make… — 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 do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is… — 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
