About 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 first (The End of Nature) in 1989 about climate change.

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There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

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Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

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I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest ...

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...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.

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We speak often, and sentimentally, of being 'enchanted' by the natural world. But what if it's the other way around? What if we are enchanted, literally, by the human world we live in? That seems entirely more likely - that the consumer world amounts...

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In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.

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We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.

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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.

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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

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If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.

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If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.

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Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

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Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

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We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

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Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

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Author Bio

NameBill McKibben
DescriptionAmerican environmentalist and writer
BornDecember 8, 1960
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionJournalist; Author
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Sophie Prize; Gandhi Peace Award; Right Livelihood Award

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