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I'm far less a leader than a writer.
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.
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Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.
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I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.
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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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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.
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The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
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Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.
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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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I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.
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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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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
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I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very hard.
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what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.
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There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward. And that's a difficult part.
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We have to get our states to adopt what are called renewable portfolio standards pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.
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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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We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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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.
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If you were running a solar company you may be okay - you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?
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