I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along. Bill McKibben More Quotes by Bill McKibben More Quotes From 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 connections movement community 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. Bill McKibben oil wind thinking I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside. Bill McKibben fracking incentives thinking Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people. Bill McKibben rocks ice ocean 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 ice ocean water Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet. Bill McKibben temperature melting frozen [Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction. Bill McKibben growing-up kids world I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder. Bill McKibben loss people thinking 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 agriculture locals We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's equally important to figure out how we're going to free up the resources to let the developing world leapfrog the fossil fuel age. That's at least as mathematically important, and at least as morally crucial. Bill McKibben important home worry Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy. Bill McKibben should-have together world What we're playing for now as a movement is not to stop climate change — that's not on the menu. What we're playing for is can we stop it short of the place where it cuts off civilization at the knees? that's what the goal is now. It's not inspiring in a way that saying 'I have a dream' is inspiring. It's more like: 'let's see how tame we can keep this nightmare'. Bill McKibben environment People have risen to crises before. It was our parents' and grandparents' generation who faced the crisis of fascism in Europe, we are in an existential emergency of the same kind, so staying away from work for a day and organizing is not too much to ask. Bill McKibben environment We're clearly in a climate moment now, and it's clearly the last climate moment that's going to come in a period of time when there's still effective action to be taken. Bill McKibben environment My worry — the thing that makes me scared sometimes — is that unlike all the other fights that humans have gotten themselves into, this one comes with a time limit, and if we don't win soon, we will not win. Bill McKibben environment What all these activists are working toward is less particular pieces of legislation, and more a shift in the Zeitgest — a shift in our sense of what's normal, and natural and obvious. Bill McKibben environment These studies are part of the emerging scientific understanding that we're in even hotter water than we'd thought, we're a long ways down the path to disastrous global warming, and the policy response -- especially in the United States -- has been pathetically underwhelming. Bill McKibben world The only bright point is that, as the study authors say, they haven't factored in the plummeting cost of solar power, that's the one way out we still might take -- but only if our governments take full advantage of the breakthroughs our engineers have produced. Bill McKibben world Since pace is the crucial question now, activists must redouble our efforts to weaken that industry. Bill McKibben environment With all the lobbyists on earth, environmentalists couldn't get cap and trade done. Bill McKibben company-news
