I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet’s history. We do a lot with art and music and things.
BILL MCKIBBENIn reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
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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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We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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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.
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There are so many symptoms of this disease it’s hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology – on the way water moves around the planet.
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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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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.
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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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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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The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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We couldn’t outspend the fossil fuel industry – they have more money than God.
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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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I’m not sure I’m a very good source of advice since we’re kind of making this up as we go along.
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It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.
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My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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