Quotes by Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

American environmentalist, author, and journalist

Lived from: 1960 -

Category: Politics | Media | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 8 december 1960

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  • A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
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  • If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.
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  • If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
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  • In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
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  • It worries me because it alters perception. TV, and the culture it anchors, and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.
    The Age of Missing Information
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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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  • Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
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  • Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
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  • The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
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  • 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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  • 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.
    Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
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  • We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
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  • We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.
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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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  • Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bill McKibben?

The two most famous quotes from Bill McKibben are:

  • "A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action."
  • "If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate."

When did Bill McKibben live?

Bill McKibben is still alive and was born in 1960.