Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including The End of Nature (1989), the first book for a general audience on climate change, and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010).  He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009.  He is a frequent contributor to various publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and Outside.  He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine. 

A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, Bill holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges.  In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Bill is a Post Carbon Institute Fellow. 

On Sunday, September 21st, a huge crowd will march through the middle of Manhattan.  It will almost certainly be the largest rally about climate change in human history, and one of the largest political protests in many years in New York. 

A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the climate movement.  Which, if you think about it, may be both good news and bad news. 

I don't claim to know exactly what's going on with #IdleNoMore, the surging movement of indigenous activists that started late last year in Canada and is now spreading across the continent—much of the action, from hunger strikes to road and rail blockades, is in scattered and remote places, and even as people around the world plan for solidarity actions on Friday, the press has done a …

We could postpone healthcare reform a decade, and the cost would be terrible -- all the suffering not responded to over those 10 years.  But when we returned to it, the problem would be about the same size.  With climate change, unless we act fairly soon in response to the timetable set by physics, there’s not much reason to act at all. 

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