If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
BILL MCKIBBENWe’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
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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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[Kids] will grow up into a world that’s difficult and wonderful, and they’ll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.
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There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
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A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.
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There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
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Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
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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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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local – the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.
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I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
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I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.
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