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  • Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
  • Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

    What makes us different? We’re the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

    There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

    I’ve always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I’m far less a leader than a writer.

    I’m far less a leader than a writer.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.

    If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves. Download This Image

    The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

    Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

    But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: ‘free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren’t solving global warming, QED global warming is not a problem’. It’s not a very good syllogism but it’s emotionally comforting if you’re in that world.

    In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: ‘free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren’t solving global warming, QED global warming is not a problem’. It’s not a very good syllogism but it’s emotionally comforting if you’re in that world.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

    I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected. Download This Image

    All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

    There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.

    We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don’t think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we’re now shifting the planet.

    But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don’t think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we’re now shifting the planet.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people. Download This Image

    Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

    You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

    Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.

    My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet’s history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

    I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet’s history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer’s drought provides a small taste. Download This Image

    For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer’s drought provides a small taste.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement. Download This Image

    I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

    There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - [Kids] will grow up into a world that’s difficult and wonderful, and they’ll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.

    [Kids] will grow up into a world that’s difficult and wonderful, and they’ll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?

    If you were running a solar company you may be okay – you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?

    BILL MCKIBBEN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill McKibben Quote - I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.

    I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.

    BILL MCKIBBEN