Bill McKibben Quotes - Page 4

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• I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Air, Long

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• One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

  Bill McKibben

  Ecosystems, Degrees, Earth

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.

  Bill McKibben

  College, Degrees, Guarantees

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• There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

  Bill McKibben

  Fighting, Important, Battle

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

  Bill McKibben

  Feet, Fuel, Fossils

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We also have to engage - and I think this is important - in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short time that we have to address them without engaging in real political change.

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  Real, Thinking, Political

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.

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  Mean, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Lasts, Climate

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

  Bill McKibben

  People, Environmental, Might

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.

  Bill McKibben

  Talking, Long, Comfort

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• The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon so that markets have something to chew on when they think about climate change instead of the complete monopoly, the absurdity of allowing these guys to own the sky for free - socialise all of the costs and privatise all of the profits.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Sky, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

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  America, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

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  Challenges, Important, Tendencies

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• I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Buddhist, Moving, Email

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• 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.

  Bill McKibben

  Money, People, Community

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• 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

  Climate Action, Ideas, India

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.

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  Thinking, Years, Leader

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

  Bill McKibben

  Colonialism, Slavery, Kind

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They've got the big checkbooks. We've got to have the big crowd.

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  Leader, Scare, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995.

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  Community, Purpose, Facts

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.

  Bill McKibben

  Tipping, World, Damage

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over the place working on this and that there's a great deal of solidarity around the world and we should try to build this big, sprawling movement that looks like the kind of energy system that we want - building lots of solar panels on lots of rooftops that are all interconnected.

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  People, Guy, Advice

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

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  Kids, Perfect, Looks

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.

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  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Wind, Oil

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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