At least I sure hope it will – and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
BILL MCKIBBENIrene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can’t substitute for real connection and community.
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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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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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From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.
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Oil companies are radical because they’re willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor – surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.
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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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Without a movement pressing for change, there’s little hope. We’ve got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.
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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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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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We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
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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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Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.
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I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.
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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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