Bill McKibben

We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to…

— Bill McKibben

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

— Bill McKibben

The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written…

— Bill McKibben

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

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

— Bill McKibben

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than…

— Bill McKibben

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

We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy…

— Bill McKibben

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.

— Bill McKibben

“Vermont breweries are symbols of everything that’s right and good about a free local economy, where neighbors make things for neighbors -…

— Bill McKibben

We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references…

— Bill McKibben

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

— Bill McKibben

Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want…

— Bill McKibben

“only in relatively recent times have people decided that “because I want to” is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a…

— Bill McKibben

“The Keeling Curve Courtesy the NASA Earth Observatory. NASA graph by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the NOAA Climate Monitoring…

— Bill McKibben

[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number…

— Bill McKibben

“the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.”

— Bill McKibben

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

— Bill McKibben

We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in…

— 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

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell…

— Bill McKibben

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we…

— 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

Scientists are telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We're at 387 parts…

— Bill McKibben

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then…

— Bill McKibben