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Jul 18, 2022 A scorching heat wave continues to fuel wildfires across southern Europe and parts of North Africa, resulting in hundreds of heat-related deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. The record-breaking temperatures come as Senator Joe Manchin … Continue reading →

Jul 18, 2022 We speak with climate author and activist Bill McKibben, who is pushing for the climate movement to demand the release of Egyptian prisoner and human rights activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah ahead of the next U.N. climate conference, … Continue reading →

Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educator―is fiercely curious. “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing―knowing―that the United States was the greatest country on … Continue reading →

Jul 5, 2022

Apr 7,2022 A new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns the opportunity to mitigate the worst effects of global warming by maintaining global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius is quickly closing and that humanity has … Continue reading →

and Illustration by Álvaro Bernis On the last day of February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its most dire report yet. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, had, he said, “seen many scientific reports in my … Continue reading →

Bill McKibben: https://media.blubrry.com/radioopensource/content.blubrry.com/radioopensource/220324-OS-PODCAST-Bill_McKibben.mp3 How to Stop Burning Things When Bill McKibben looks at the war in Ukraine, what he sees is a chapter, maybe the very last one, in the chronicle of a planet that we humans are burning unto … Continue reading →

http://ecoethics.net/YSOLI/201907-Climate/Audio/20220327-Bill-McKibben-Falter.mp3 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 →

Democracy Now! Feb 28, 2022 We speak with climate author, journalist and movement leader Bill McKibben upon the release of the highly anticipated U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2022 report, which finds the impacts of the climate crisis are … Continue reading →

https://file.audio.wgbh.org/wgbh/011422-bill-mckibben.mp3 We began the show by asking listeners their thoughts on incentives and disincentives to raise vaccination rates, like the allure of free doughnuts and the drawback of higher health insurance rates. Bill McKibben reviewed the apocalyptic climate film “Don’t … Continue reading →