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For connoisseurs, Barack Obama’s fundraising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn — slightly limp reminders of the…
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world.
Hurricane Irene received a massive amount of media coverage, but television reports made little or no reference to the role global warming…
I didn’t think it was possible, but my admiration for Martin Luther King, Jr., grew even stronger these past days. As I…
It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found my 'Environmentalists for Obama' button left over from the…
The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months. Instead of charts and graphs…
In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem…
Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo.,…
The UN’s big climate conference ended Saturday in Cancún, with claims of modest victory. "The UN climate talks are off the life-support…
I got to see the now-famous enthusiasm gap up close and personal last week, and it wasn’t a pretty sight. The backstory:…
Try to fit these facts together: * According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade,…