A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
BILL MCKIBBENMy house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
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The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
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No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
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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.
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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!
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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
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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.
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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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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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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.
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My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.
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If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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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.
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