Bill McKibben Quotes

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environmental science at the time, the estimation of the speed at which we see the effects of global warming.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.

If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.