Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we’d imagined.
BILL MCKIBBENWhat makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we’re the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide.
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There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.
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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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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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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’re going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary – at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody’s politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.
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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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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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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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I’m far less a leader than a writer.
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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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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.
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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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