what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors. Bill McKibben More Quotes by Bill McKibben More Quotes From Bill McKibben I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former. Bill McKibben former planets trying If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution. Bill McKibben kyoto data iraq Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when Bill McKibben advent-christmas advent running I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community. Bill McKibben couple religious years I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being. Bill McKibben air long years If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree. Bill McKibben degrees college guarantees But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness. Bill McKibben tolerance moral laziness TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour. Bill McKibben tvs half easy No one is strong enough - given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game. Bill McKibben tasks strong games The world is on fire, and I'm doing my best to help steer the firetruck. Bill McKibben fire helping world We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever. Bill McKibben nice mistake forever I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual distinction in our time of being the only institutions left that can posit some goal other than accumulation for human existence. I think that's enormously important because it is that drive for consumption more than anything else that fuels the environmental devastation around us. Bill McKibben community goal thinking It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the world, and second of all did all the science originally around climate and global warming and presented that to the world, has been the country that has refused to participate in a constructive way to the solution. Bill McKibben climate country world There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar. Bill McKibben battle fighting important The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases doubles from pre-Industrial Revolution concentrations, the global average temperature will increase, and that the increase will be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius or 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit... In Dallas, for instance, a doubled level of carbon dioxide and other gases like methane, would increase the number of days a year with temperatures above 100 degrees from 19 to 78 each year. Bill McKibben numbers average years When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good. Bill McKibben meter electricity sun 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. Bill McKibben kyoto issues taken In the end, climate change is a math problem. Bill McKibben climate problem math Warm air holds more water vapor than cold, and so the atmosphere is about 4% wetter than it was 40 years ago. This loads the dice for flood and drought, and we're seeing both in stunning abundance. Bill McKibben air water years In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate. Bill McKibben climate lasts years
