It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.
Bill McKibbenI don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they're based in ideology. And I don't think there's anything you can do.
Bill McKibbenNo one is strong enoughโ - โgiven the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
Bill McKibbenThe technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
Bill McKibbenWe are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.
Bill McKibben