We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.
BILL MCKIBBENWe had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.
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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world’s poor people depend.
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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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Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.
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According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually
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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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A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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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 laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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When we work all over the planet, it’s mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that’s mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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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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To me the analogy [to climate change] is… doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says “oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised” people pay no attention.
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