Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
Bill McKibbenThere is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
Bill McKibbenLook - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
Bill McKibben"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.
Bill McKibbenDo I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US government to pay attention to the warnings of scientists about climate change? Not really. I mean, in a rational world, if all the scientists said, "The worst thing that ever happened is about to happen and here's what you should do to stop it," you would expect any rational system to say, "Oh, sure, OK, let's do something about it." But that's not the world we live in. In the world we live in, you do need people willing to stand up, fight, march and sometimes go to jail.
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