Bill McKibben Quotes

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.