Degrees Quote by Bill McKibben Download Open image “One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.” — Bill McKibben ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degrees Earth Ecosystems Enough Nature Turns
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs. — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
“[A] group of leading academics argue that humanity must stay within defined boundaries for a range of essential Earth-system processes to avoid catastrophic environmental change. . . . They propose that for three of these—the nitrogen cycle, the rate of loss of species and anthropogenic climate change—the maximum acceptable limit has already been transgressed. In addition, they say that humanity… — Jonathan A. Moo Copy Share
I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“Tourism, global warming and eradication of soil erosion causes have all been substantially enhanced through ecosystem study.” — Justin Ascott Copy Share Image
There's so much out in the world that is not good for the environment. — David Lauren Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either harden his… — Aldo Leopold 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
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I was a full time student either at Stony Brook or NYU getting my masters degree. After I graduated with my masters I was… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image