The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
BILL MCKIBBENAdvent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There’s real hunger out there.
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I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.
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[Barack Obama] done some good things, he’s done a couple of bad things. He’s obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and… lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he’s been weak on it.
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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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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The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
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Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
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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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Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
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You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet
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The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.
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