Bill McKibben
BILL MCKIBBEN
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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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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Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people.
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We have to get our states to adopt what are called “renewable portfolio standards” pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.
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If one wanted to stigmaitise, that’s how one would do it – lots and lots of people saying “we’re severing our ties”.
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There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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![Bill McKibben Quote - If [a student’s] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/if-a-students-colleges-endowment-portfolio-has-fos.jpg)
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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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I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.
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TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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