Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
BILL MCKIBBENThe movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.
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All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can’t substitute for real connection and community.
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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.
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When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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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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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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We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
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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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When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.
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If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.
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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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Where people aren’t as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it’s far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they’re much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They’re ready to go.
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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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