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.
BILL MCKIBBENEnvironmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
More Bill McKibben Quotes
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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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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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In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.
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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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We have to get our states to adopt what are called “renewable portfolio standards” pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.
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In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
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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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We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.
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We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They’ve got the big checkbooks. We’ve got to have the big crowd.
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We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.
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The world is on fire, and I’m doing my best to help steer the firetruck.
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Very few people on earth ever get to say: ‘I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.’ If you’ll join this fight that’s what you’ll get to say
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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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