Quotes for All
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we’re holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side. Bill McKibben
If there’s horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we’re no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago. Bill McKibben
Scientists are telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We’re at 387 parts per million now, and we’re up in that zone where the risk of going past irrevocable tipping points is elevated. It’s no different than going to a doctor and learning your cholesterol is … Read more
There’s no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year’s worth of ancient biology, and flush it into the atmosphere in a matter of decades, then it stands to reason that we’re going to have enormous effects, and now we can see those … Read more
Here, there’s more of a movement, it doesn’t mean we’re winning any more, but we’re at least fighting. Bill McKibben
Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence. Bill McKibben
We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity. Bill McKibben
We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures. Bill McKibben
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 McKibben
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