Bill McKibben Quotes

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

I'm obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the weather pattern.

Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.

I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!