The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.
Bill McKibbenWe're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual action that actually matters is not being an individual. It's joining together with other people in groups large enough to change the political dynamic around climate change.
Bill McKibbenFossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.
Bill McKibbenWe don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.
Bill McKibben