BILL McKIBBEN on Dampening the Blow of a Spiraling Climate /64
Brooks Range, Alaska. Photo by Willie the Wanderer
Today we join Bill Mckibben to discuss news from the frontlines of climate chaos and resistance. The discussion centers around the potential fate of modern civilization and the imperative to survive and to restore biodiversity.
Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book written for a general audience discussing climate change, and has been translated into 24 languages. He’s gone on to write a dozen more books and to receive the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’
Bill McKibben
McKibben is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in nearly every country, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat (Megophthalmidia mckibbeni) in his honor.
♫ Music is "Black Snakes" by Mariee Sioux.
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