Quotes from Bill McKibben

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.

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along.

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.

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.

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

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

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

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

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.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

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.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

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.

Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.