My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
BILL MCKIBBENEspecially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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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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[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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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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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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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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The 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.
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everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between “good weather” and “bad weather” is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.
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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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Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer’s drought provides a small taste.
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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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When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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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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Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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