If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

Best of 2010: Bill McKibben on global warming, green energy and localized economies

 

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s October 2010 interview with 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 December 5, 2011 article The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium in response to the climate summit held in Durban. Also read the December 2011 articles Draft Climate Deal Dubbed a “Death Sentence for Africa”, U.S. destroying climate talks: Kyoto Protocol on life support, Obama is Days Away from Killing Talk on a Climate Deal?, Carbon Dioxide Emissions Break Growth Records: Emissions rebound fast from global financial crisis, driven by developing world and World Heading for 3.5 C (6 Degrees) Warming: Study. And read McKibben’s August 4, 2010 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. For more background on global warming and other environmental issues, read Dr. Caldicott’s book If You Love This Planet (2009).

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