There’s always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there’s the greater possibility we’ll just spend our whole lives staring at screens and never get anything done.
BILL MCKIBBENIf it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.
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We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
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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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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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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.
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Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
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The latest computer modeling I’ve seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as “environmental refugees.”
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In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it’s going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it’s also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
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The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
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At least I sure hope it will – and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
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