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[The Maldives] they’ve become deeply politically engaged – just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.
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A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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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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If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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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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The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels – in fact you have to.
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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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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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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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Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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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.
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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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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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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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