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The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

Bill McKibben
Energy, World, Environment
Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.2, Macmillan

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

Bill McKibben
Energy, Climate, Impossible

I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very hard.

Bill McKibben
People, Energy, Climate
Source: www.opendemocracy.net

Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.

Bill McKibben
Europe, People, Energy
Interview with Diane Silver, www.resilience.org. January 2009.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

Bill McKibben
Names, Weather, Energy
"Hurricane Irene Can Be Tied to Global Warming, Says Bill McKibben" byBill McKibben, www.thedailybeast.com. August 25, 2011.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

Bill McKibben
Energy, Fuel, Fossils
Source: thinkprogress.org

[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.

Bill McKibben
Couple, Energy, Done
Source: www.opendemocracy.net

It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably difficult to do that, for a variety of economic and regulatory reasons, without the participation of the biggest energy user in the world.

Bill McKibben
Kyoto, Energy, Gone
Source: theotherjournal.com

We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.

Bill McKibben
Energy, Use, Way
Source: theotherjournal.com

With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side.

Bill McKibben
Energy, Each Month, Fuel
"Environmentalists Cheer Keystone XL Pipeline Decision As 'Decisive Moment'". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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