Environmentalism Quote by Bill McKibben Download Open image “Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.” — Bill McKibben ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environmentalism People Rich White White people
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism]… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“White people find it extremely hard to live in an environment they don't control.” — Coleman A. Young Copy Share Image
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people. — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society. — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
“So you’re an environmentalist; why are you supporting commodities instead of food, corporate profits over local, living economies, and power over justice?” — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand 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
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
“You wanna know why the world is f**ked? This is why, this is exactly why…right here. Get a pen, write this down, this is… — Shannon Lyndsy Copy Share Image
“To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“Wolves attack the hindquarters of prey first, biting into the animal's meaty rump or ham. They stay away from the tendons near the hooves.… — Jon T. Coleman Copy Share Image
“When we burn fossil fuel for energy we are, in qualitative terms, doing nothing more wrong than burning wood. Our wrongdoing, if that is… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“There's terrible evil in the world." It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Like many other world religions, nationalism requires its adapts to adhere to a strict dogma. They must also provide a sacrifice of blood and… — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
