We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.
BILL MCKIBBENStop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we’d imagined.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.
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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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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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Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
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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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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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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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A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.
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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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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.
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Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we’d imagined.
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If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
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On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.
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