If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

Bill McKibben on global warming, green energy and localized economies

 

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

In this edition of If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott interviews Bill McKibben about global warming, alternative energy and the growing need for more localized economies. Author, educator and environmentalist McKibben was described in 2010 by the Boston Globe as “probably the nation’s leading environmentalist” and Time magazine described him as “the world’s best green journalist.
McKibben’s books include Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough
New Planet
, Deep Economy, Fight Global Warming Now and The End of Nature. In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org, which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called “the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind,” with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. Read McKibben’s August 4 article We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More: Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming and the October 5 article Here Comes the Sun: White House to Go Solar which refers to 350.org’s recent campaign and includes a photo of McKibben.

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