Bill McKibben on electricity
Bill McKibben108 quotes“When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one’s figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that’s good.”
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Bill McKibbenBill McKibben I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
Brett FavreBrett Favre 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.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben 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.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben I’m not sure I’m a very good source of advice since we’re kind of making this up as we go along.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BjorkBjork So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn’t seem like an enormous amount but it’s unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
Bill NighyBill Nighy If [a student’s] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don’t have to look much past New Orleans to see that. Who took the hit? Some of the poorest people in the U.S.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben If I have an iPod, I’m good.
Breckin MeyerBreckin Meyer I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There’s real hunger out there.
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It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
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Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?
Bill GatesBill Gates So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.
Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
Maya AngelouMaya Angelou Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
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