Bill McKibben Global Quotations

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.

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

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.