Bill McKibben Quotes - Page 6

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• That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really announced that this was going on, and since then the accumulation of data and wickedly hot years has served to only congeal that consensus much more firmly.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Data, Together

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can't substitute for real connection and community.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Community, Google

  Source: sierraclub.typepad.com

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• Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

  Bill McKibben

  Names, Weather, Energy

  "Hurricane Irene Can Be Tied to Global Warming, Says Bill McKibben" byBill McKibben, www.thedailybeast.com. August 25, 2011.

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• After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.

  Bill McKibben

  Animal, Doe, Magazines

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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!

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• 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

  Political, Movement, Littles

  Interview with Diane Silver, www.resilience.org. January 2009.

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• 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.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

  Bill McKibben

  Ideas, Oil, Long

  "Environmentalists Cheer Keystone XL Pipeline Decision As 'Decisive Moment'". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

  Bill McKibben

  Home, House, Green

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• The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

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  Real, Book, Design

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• I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate, Population, Problem

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Digging A Hole, Climate Change, Holes

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

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  Powerful, Attitude, Thinking

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• Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

  Bill McKibben

  Home, Levels, Spare Time

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.

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  Country, Giving Up, Talking

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• Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.

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  Average, Oil, Seductive

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• Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

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  Country, Two, Rich Countries

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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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.

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  Worry, Coal, Company

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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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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• One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.

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  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.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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• Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

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  Country, Years, People

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

  Bill McKibben

  Data, Done, Damage

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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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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• 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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