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.
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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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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These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
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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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[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.
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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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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
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If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.
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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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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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I’m not sure I’m a very good source of advice since we’re kind of making this up as we go along.
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Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
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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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We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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