Bill McKibben Quotes - Page 5

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• TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

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  Real, Persistence, Anchors

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.26, Random House

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• The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.

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  Future, Long, Desire

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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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  Business, Fuel, Waste

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US government to pay attention to the warnings of scientists about climate change? Not really. I mean, in a rational world, if all the scientists said, "The worst thing that ever happened is about to happen and here's what you should do to stop it," you would expect any rational system to say, "Oh, sure, OK, let's do something about it." But that's not the world we live in. In the world we live in, you do need people willing to stand up, fight, march and sometimes go to jail.

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  Mean, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

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  Thinking, Global Warming, Argument

  "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.

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  Country, Hate, Sea

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• In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

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  Country, Epic, Years

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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

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  Healthy, Balance, Fuel

  Bill McKibben (2013). “Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.

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  Light, Two, Numbers

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• I'm far less a leader than a writer.

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  Leader

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

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  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Taken, Men, Years

  "Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.

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  Country, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.

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  Europe, People, Energy

  Interview with Diane Silver, www.resilience.org. January 2009.

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• That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really announced that this was going on, and since then the accumulation of data and wickedly hot years has served to only congeal that consensus much more firmly.

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  Years, Data, Together

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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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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  Real, Community, Google

  Source: sierraclub.typepad.com

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• Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

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  Names, Weather, Energy

  "Hurricane Irene Can Be Tied to Global Warming, Says Bill McKibben" byBill McKibben, www.thedailybeast.com. August 25, 2011.

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• If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

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  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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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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  Animal, Doe, Magazines

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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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  Political, Movement, Littles

  Interview with Diane Silver, www.resilience.org. January 2009.

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• Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

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  Real, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

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  Ideas, Oil, Long

  "Environmentalists Cheer Keystone XL Pipeline Decision As 'Decisive Moment'". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

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  Home, House, Green

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

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  Climate, Population, Problem

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

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  Real, Book, Design

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