Bill McKibben Quotes - Page 9

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• So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Twenties, Degrees

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.

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  Melting, Frozen, Temperature

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• It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.

  Bill McKibben

  Ice, People, Happenings

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• On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Ice, Water

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• We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

  Bill McKibben

  Given

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• We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.

  Bill McKibben

  Technology, Transition, Clean

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Climate, Lasts

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

  Bill McKibben

  Worry, Coal, Company

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted just as they had predicted. Did Shell Oil look at the melt and say, "Huh, maybe we should go into the solar-panel business instead?" No, Shell Oil looked at that and said, "Oh, well, now that it's melted it will be easier to drill for more oil up there." That's enough to make you doubt about the big brain being a good adaptation.

  Bill McKibben

  Doubt, Brain, Adaptation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The flaw is the business plan - digging up and burning way more carbon than physics says we can deal with. So, I suppose it's some kind of mid-point between writing them nice letters asking them to stop and figuring out a way to take down the entire system- which I don't have any idea how to do.

  Bill McKibben

  Nice, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

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  Jobs, Rain, Book

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• TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Thinking, Might

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction - that's why we have "days of action" where people are in real contact with each other - but it's the cheap (and low-carbon) way to do an awful lot of the planning and organizing. And we can build, for $20k, a website as good as one Exxon can build for $20 million.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Real, People

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

  Bill McKibben

  Agriculture, Locals

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• [Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.

  Bill McKibben

  Growing Up, Kids, World

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

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  Future, Two, People

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• From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Atmosphere, Tiny

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.

  Bill McKibben

  Technology, Years, Climate

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

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  Principles, Might, Stereotype

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

  Bill McKibben

  Oil, Atmosphere, Chemicals

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

  Bill McKibben

  Advice, Kind, Source

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater possibility we'll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.

  Bill McKibben

  People, Done, Mail

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

  Bill McKibben

  Smart, Squares, Uprising

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• 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

  Trying, Fuel, Subsidies

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Fracking, Incentives

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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