Bill McKibben quotes - page 2

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)
On May 23, at the end of the last massive school strike, Thunberg and 46 other youth activists released an open letter to The Guardian urging adults to join in next time. Because, as they pointed out, there are limits to what young people can do on their own. If you can't vote, and if you don't own stocks, then your ability to pull the main levers of power is limited. They wrote: "Sorry if this is inconvenient for you. But this is not a single-generation job. It's humanity's job.”. View quote
Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Environmentalist
Born: December 8, 1960
Quotes count: 27
Wikipedia: Bill McKibben

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