Best Bill McKibben Sayings
- we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness. Blot
- TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour. Another Half
- But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness. Cover
- There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. Challenges
- In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and… Corporations
- There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. Affection
- When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. All
- If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow… Changing
- A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad,… Abroad
- There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal,… Coal
- Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies. Big