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Bill McKibben
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual action that actually matters is not being an individual. It's joining together with other people in groups large enough to change the political dynamic around climate change.
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If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the tune here. We've got to respond to a timetable that physics has set for us.
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In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?
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We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to scare and entice them. They've got the big checkbooks. We've got to have the big crowd.
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If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying we're severing our ties.
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The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
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We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.
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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.
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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
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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.
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That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well aware of what this industry is about. It engages not only in those kind of practices, polluting people's water, but it has polluted our political life now for a quarter century.
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Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.
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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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The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.
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Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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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.
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We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.
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I think [George W.] Bush has done nothing right about global warming.
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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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We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that here is a number, and that number is above it, and that's too high. It's not a very complicated idea.
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