I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psycheโbut maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mindโฆ.There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.
Bill McKibbenI think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best things about it, if we do it right, will be that it will be more local, more democratic, more distributed, and, in the long run, much more economically sensible.
Bill McKibbenHere, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting.
Bill McKibbenThe ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
Bill McKibbenIf there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.
Bill McKibbenOften when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.
Bill McKibben