Bill McKibben Quotes About Climate Change

There are many Bill McKibben quotes on environmental issues.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

- Bill McKibben

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

- Bill McKibben

More Bill McKibben Quotes

The logic of divestment couldn't be simpler: if it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage.

- Bill McKibben

ExxonMobil, the world’s largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.

- Bill McKibben

If we keep raising carbon dioxide levels, we may not be able to think straight anymore. At a thousand parts per million (which is within the realm of possibility for 2100), human cognitive ability falls 21 percent. “The largest effects were seen for Crisis Response, Information Usage, and Strategy,” a Harvard study reported, which is too bad, as those skills are what we seem to need most.

- Bill McKibben

Single most important stat on the planet: CO₂ rose 3.5 parts per million last year, 2nd-highest annual rise on record. This is legit scary.

- Bill McKibben, 2019

It 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 McKibben

You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.

- Bill McKibben