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https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/amazon-rainforests-are-fire-brazil-s-trump-president-jair-bolsonaro-ncna1045026 Aug. 22, 2019, 4:36 AM EDT By Bill McKibben, founder, global climate campaign 350.org Sao Paulo is the largest city in the western hemisphere — and Tuesday it was also the most hellish. Around two in the afternoon, the … Continue reading →

By Bill McKibben August 9, 2019 Toward the end of this hideous week of gun massacres and Presidential tantrums, I found myself manacled at the ankle to a bench in a holding cell in the basement of a police station … Continue reading →

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Students hold signs during a demonstration against climate change in New York on March 15, 2019. (Reuters / Shannon Stapleton) Bill McKibben was one of the first people to warn of the dangers of global warming 30 years ago with … Continue reading →

‘We have two relatively new inventions that could prove decisive to solving global warming before it destroys the planet. One is the solar panel.’ Photograph: Gérard Julien/AFP/Getty Images Tue 23 Apr 2019 01.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 23 Apr … Continue reading →

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature — … Continue reading →

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-thinker-bill-mckibben-sounds-warning-on-technology/ When author and environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, the world was a very different place. The science behind climate change was not as sophisticated, the public’s understanding of the issue more limited, and the … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Published on Apr 15, 2019 President Trump signed two executive orders last week to facilitate the approval of pipeline projects at a federal level, limiting states’ ability to regulate such projects. The move is intended in part to … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Published on Apr 15, 2019 Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London … Continue reading →

The Big Picture RT Published on Sep 20, 2013 Bill McKibben, 350.org/Oil and Honey, joins Thom Hartmann. The fight to save our civilization from global warming and climate change is in high gear – even as 2.4 million pounds of … Continue reading →