People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.
Bill McKibbenOil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
Bill McKibbenIt is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.
Bill McKibbenThe technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
Bill McKibbenAlone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
Bill McKibbenIf one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".
Bill McKibbenIn the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because everybody assumed that reasonable heads would prevail and do the right thing - and why would you need to have a huge movement in order to cause our leaders to deal with the most serious problem that they face. In a rational world you wouldn't. They would deal with it.
Bill McKibben