BILL McKIBBEN on Dampening the Blow of a Spiraling Climate /64

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.’ 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.