Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
BILL MCKIBBENThere 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.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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I guess the underlying principle might be, don’t make it too easy for them to stereotype you.
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In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They’ll just ask, “So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?”
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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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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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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.
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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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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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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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Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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“Science,” of course, replaced “God” as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.
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Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.
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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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Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
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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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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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We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
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There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
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I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local – the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.
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The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
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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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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 fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.
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It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet’s life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it’s very hard to understand why we haven’t taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
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