My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.
BILL MCKIBBEN
In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We’ve seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .
![Bill McKibben Quote - [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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/the-maldives-theyve-become-deeply-politically-enga.jpg)
![Bill McKibben Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/all-the-science-in-the-last-few-years-or-almost-al.jpg)
![Bill McKibben Quote - I’m probably the wrong person to ask. My partner in much of this work [climate movement], who really came up with the divestment campaign with me, Naomi Klein, I think has written powerfully about this.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/im-probably-the-wrong-person-to-ask-my-partner-in-.jpg)
![Bill McKibben Quote - To me the analogy [to climate change] is… doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says “oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised” people pay no attention.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/to-me-the-analogy-to-climate-change-is-doctors-wor.jpg)
