A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
Bill McKibbenMy house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.
Bill McKibbenA world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.
Bill McKibbenAll the things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're talking about melting the ice caps, raising the level of the seas dramatically, changing the distribution of every other species on Earth, perhaps wiping out one-third or half of them. The changes at work are geologic in scale. The level of change required to deal with it is enormous, too. It will require change in every country. It will require a degree of global cooperation that we haven't seen before.
Bill McKibben