Bill McKibben Quotes

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• The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation,…
• Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's…
• Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no…
• The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
• There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an…
• Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
• 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 on planet Earth.…
• Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
• We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
• We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete…
• The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.
• According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively…
• We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will…
• Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
• TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons,…
• When you are in a hole, stop digging!
• I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its…
• The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more…
• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water…
• We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow…

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