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  • Bill McKibben Quote - we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
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we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - 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.

    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.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

    The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I’m probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.

    I’m probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we’re the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide. Download This Image

    It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we’re the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action. Download This Image

    A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

    A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - At least I sure hope it will – and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides. Download This Image

    We’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - The movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

    The movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

    BILL MCKIBBEN