Bill McKibben Quotes

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

There are those who say that climate change is a hoax, a concoction of radical environmentalists and a liberal media. That is simply hogwash.... To ignore and dismiss the threat of climate change to the economy and the environment is like insisting the earth is flat.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.

As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

I believe that climate change is real, is driven mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme weather events, hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.

Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.

I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.

It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.

We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.