The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
BILL MCKIBBEN
Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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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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We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
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We also have to engage – and I think this is important – in national politics because there is no way to address questions of this scale in the short time that we have to address them without engaging in real political change.
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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?
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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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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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I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet’s history. We do a lot with art and music and things.
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