Bill McKibben Quotes - Page 9

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• The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

  Bill McKibben

  Time, Shopping, August

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• We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.

  Bill McKibben

  Believe, Ignorance, Opposites

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• 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

  Running, Stress, Thinking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Climate, Might

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

  Bill McKibben

  Fighting, Technology, Being Free

  "Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age". Book by Bill McKibben, April 2, 2003.

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• We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.

  Bill McKibben

  Technology, Transition, Clean

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably difficult to do that, for a variety of economic and regulatory reasons, without the participation of the biggest energy user in the world.

  Bill McKibben

  Kyoto, Energy, Gone

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

  Bill McKibben

  Doors, Als, Katrina

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Data, Issues

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Done, Global Warming

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.

  Bill McKibben

  Taken, Kyoto, Issues

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the world, and second of all did all the science originally around climate and global warming and presented that to the world, has been the country that has refused to participate in a constructive way to the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Climate, World

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.

  Bill McKibben

  Suicidal, Thinking, Self

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Addresses, Facts

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.

  Bill McKibben

  Religious, Couple, Years

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Hands, Issues

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

  Bill McKibben

  Political, Needs, Action

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I think we need to go straight at the fossil fuel industry.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Needs, Fuel

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Political, Fuel

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

  Bill McKibben

  Done, Administration, Counterproductive

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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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.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Thinking, Istanbul

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Fuel, Want

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate, Problem, Climate Change

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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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.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Ice, Water

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

  Bill McKibben

  West, Habit, Term

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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