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William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born December 8, 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change.

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We're going to need that kind of movement, because the fossil fuel industry is a sprawling adversary - at work everywhere, its tentacles in everybody's politics, invulnerable, I think, to direct frontal assault, but probably more brittle than it guesses if we come at it from all sides.

Brittle, Fuel, Movement, Needs, Thinking, Work

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

Heavy, Holy, Mind, Required, Sign, Spirit

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Capable, Creatures, Decide, Different

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.

Believer, House, Panels, Should, Solar

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

Climate, Might, Take, Thinking, Willing, Words

No one is strong enough - given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

Games, Given, Step, Strong, Tasks

We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

Air, Arctic, Changes, Cold, Summer, Two

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Climate, Opposed, Population, Problem, Terms

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

Planet, Profit, Wreck, Wreckage, Wrecks

It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.

Believe, Charts, People, Risk, Society

The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.

Depth, Example, Hurricanes, Power

I think it's going to be a tough century; I also think people are starting to rise up, and that a growth in human solidarity will help compensate for the loss of margin in the natural world that will make life harder.

Compensate, Human, Loss, People, Thinking

We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one.

Carbon, Century, Degrees, Emitted, Pipeline, Talking

If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.

College, Degrees, Guarantee, Guarantees, Investments, Subsidized

The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we'll dawdle.

Biggest, Climate, Essentials, Humans, Needs

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

Campaign, Congress, Men, Subsidies, Taken, Years

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

Energy, Global, Middle, Name, Names, Weather

Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.

Country, Element, Engineers, Hard Work, Thinking, Working

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

Energy, Fossils, Fuel, Renewable

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Imagine, Imagine That, Life, Longer, Part

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