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We already have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as any scientist thinks is safe to burn.
— Bill McKibben
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself. — Bill McKibben
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
— Bill McKibben
If a dog can love us unconditionally, why can't we love each other in the same way?
— Carol McKibben
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
— Bill McKibben
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
The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
— Bill McKibben
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
— Bill McKibben
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
— Bill McKibben
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.
— Bill McKibben
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?"
— Bill McKibben
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. — Bill McKibben
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
— Bill McKibben
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
— Bill McKibben
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
— Bill McKibben
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
— Bill McKibben
What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
— Bill McKibben
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
— Bill McKibben
The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
— Bill McKibben
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
— Bill McKibben
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
— Bill McKibben
Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
— Bill McKibben
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
— Bill McKibben
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
— Bill McKibben
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
— Bill McKibben
Management of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.
— Bill McKibben
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
— Bill McKibben
The television culture celebrates incompetence.
— Bill McKibben
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
— Bill McKibben
What you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.
— Bill McKibben
The earth is a museum of divine intent.
— Bill McKibben
There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.
— Bill McKibben
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
— Bill McKibben
Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
— Bill McKibben
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
— Bill McKibben
We use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
— Bill McKibben
Only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.
— Bill McKibben