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. Bill McKibben More Quotes by Bill McKibben More Quotes From Bill McKibben In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love to go to church, but when I really want to feel the presence of the divine I'm more likely to head up into the mountains. Bill McKibben mountain church important 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. Bill McKibben suicidal self thinking Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme. Bill McKibben addresses facts years In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it. Bill McKibben issues hands thinking Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question. Bill McKibben powerful real needs If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign. Bill McKibben holy spirit mind The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to. Bill McKibben addresses levels numbers By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action. Bill McKibben political action needs There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology - on the way water moves around the planet. Bill McKibben water looks moving It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society. Bill McKibben risk believe people We'd won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren't going to win. Bill McKibben fighting winning years We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God. Bill McKibben more-money fossils fuel We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity. Bill McKibben creativity passion movement Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting. Bill McKibben fighting winning mean I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There's real hunger out there. Bill McKibben istanbul real thinking Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem. Bill McKibben climate-change climate problem The habits of the West in terms of consumption. Bill McKibben habit term west Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet. Bill McKibben rich-countries two country We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize! Bill McKibben climate moments keys 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
