Bill McKibben

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

— Bill McKibben

“There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.”

— Bill McKibben

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

— Bill McKibben

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

— Bill McKibben

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

— Bill McKibben

“We hebben een vijand en zijn naam is Shell.”

— Bill McKibben

“the television culture celebrates incompetence.”

— Bill McKibben

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

— Bill McKibben

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise…

— Bill McKibben

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

— Bill McKibben

The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck.

— Bill McKibben

It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow…

— Bill McKibben

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

— Bill McKibben

Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when…

— Bill McKibben

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.

— Bill McKibben

Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

— Bill McKibben

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

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our…

— Bill McKibben

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies…

— Bill McKibben

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

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable…

— Bill McKibben

All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to…

— Bill McKibben

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American…

— Bill McKibben

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy…

— Bill McKibben

Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded…

— Bill McKibben

The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now…

— Bill McKibben

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

“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the…

— Bill McKibben

It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the…

— Bill McKibben

That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well…

— Bill McKibben

Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them…

— Bill McKibben

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

“Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.”…

— Bill McKibben

“I write these words in May of 2011, the week after a huge outbreak of tornadoes killed hundreds across the American South;…

— Bill McKibben

“But knowing that moose had returned to Vermont in his lifetime pleased him enormously. It was the idea that things repaired themselves,…

— Bill McKibben

“We speak often, and sentimentally, of being 'enchanted' by the natural world. But what if it's the other way around? What if…

— Bill McKibben

“the former head of Yale’s School of Forestry writes in the introduction to his latest book, The Bridge at the Edge of…

— Bill McKibben

“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an…

— Bill McKibben

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

Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US…

— Bill McKibben