Bill McKibben Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Bill McKibben on Wise Famous Quotes.
We already have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as any scientist thinks is safe to burn.
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor
by giving each other motorized tie racks.
by giving each other motorized tie racks.
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
Only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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.
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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 pay for literally forever.
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
Management of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.
What you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.
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 need of each other.
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
Everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.