Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben
William Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his firstin 1989 about climate change...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
CountryUnited States of America
crazy taken issues
It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.
writing may climate
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
law yield divergent
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
zoos animal exotic
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.
real book design
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.
thinking growth environmental
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
given
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.
use problem abundance
Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.
sweet garden greenhouses
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
taken men years
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
reality climate climate-change
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
spiritual voice facts
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
home house green
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
russia texas years
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.