"If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion,……" — Bill McKibben
"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 a changing climate."
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61 Quotes by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben has 61 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to…
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Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it…
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The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
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There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be…
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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's…
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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to…
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We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep…
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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and…
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According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can…
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
— Joe Baca
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you are through changing, you are through.
— Bruce Barton
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
— Gary Bauer
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
— Robert Benchley
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