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Bill McKibben Quotes

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie Picture Quote #1

I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming Picture Quote #1

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem Picture Quote #1

I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry Picture Quote #1

I’m far less a leader than a writer Picture Quote #1

My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this Picture Quote #1

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I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment Picture Quote #1

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity Picture Quote #1

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement Picture Quote #1

We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we’ve raised Picture Quote #1

I don’t spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don’t think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they’re based in ideology. And I don’t think there’s anything you can do Picture Quote #1

The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we’ll dawdle Picture Quote #1

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We’ll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize! Picture Quote #1

I don’t know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week’s energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It’s very hard Picture Quote #1

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that’s going on every single day Picture Quote #1

...only in relatively recent times have people decided that because I want to is sufficient reason for annoying others Picture Quote #1

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are Picture Quote #1

Without a movement pressing for change, there’s little hope. We’ve got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large Picture Quote #1

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If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it’s going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it’s also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways! Picture Quote #1

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I’m home, I’m a pretty green fellow Picture Quote #1

With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we’re holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side Picture Quote #1

Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky Picture Quote #1

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else Picture Quote #1

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we’d imagined Picture Quote #1

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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production Picture Quote #1

We’ve abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we’ve instituted a voluntary program that’s obviously not been working, we’ve taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on Picture Quote #1

Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environmental science at the time, the estimation of the speed at which we see the effects of global warming Picture Quote #1

We couldn’t outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God Picture Quote #1

We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us Picture Quote #1

I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward Picture Quote #1

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Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie (Bill McKibben Quotes) I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming. (Bill McKibben Quotes) Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem (Bill McKibben Quotes) I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry (Bill McKibben Quotes) I’m far less a leader than a writer (Bill McKibben Quotes) My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this. (Bill McKibben Quotes) I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment. (Bill McKibben Quotes) We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity. (Bill McKibben Quotes) I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement. (Bill McKibben Quotes) We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we’ve raised. (Bill McKibben Quotes) I don’t spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don’t think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they’re based in ideology. And I don’t think there’s anything you can do. (Bill McKibben Quotes) The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we’ll dawdle. (Bill McKibben Quotes) We’ll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize! (Bill McKibben Quotes) I don’t know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week’s energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It’s very hard. (Bill McKibben Quotes) In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that’s going on every single day (Bill McKibben Quotes) ...only in relatively recent times have people decided that because I want to is sufficient reason for annoying others. (Bill McKibben Quotes) The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are (Bill McKibben Quotes) Without a movement pressing for change, there’s little hope. We’ve got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large (Bill McKibben Quotes) If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it’s going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it’s also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways! (Bill McKibben Quotes) The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I’m home, I’m a pretty green fellow (Bill McKibben Quotes) With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we’re holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side. (Bill McKibben Quotes) Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky (Bill McKibben Quotes) I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else. (Bill McKibben Quotes) Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we’d imagined. (Bill McKibben Quotes) Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production (Bill McKibben Quotes) We’ve abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we’ve instituted a voluntary program that’s obviously not been working, we’ve taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on. (Bill McKibben Quotes) Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environmental science at the time, the estimation of the speed at which we see the effects of global warming. (Bill McKibben Quotes) We couldn’t outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God (Bill McKibben Quotes) We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us (Bill McKibben Quotes) I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward. (Bill McKibben Quotes)

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