Bill McKibben | The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon

Recorded June 2, 2022
“The world’s best green journalist” (TIME), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about climate change with his 1989 book The End of Nature. His many other bestselling books about the environment include Falter, Deep Economy, Eaarth, and Oil and Honey; as well as a novel, Radio Free Vermont, which imagines a group of Vermont patriots who decide to secede from the United States. Recipient of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize, McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the founder of the global grassroots climate campaign 350.org. Part memoir of an upbringing during which the promise of the U.S. seemed limitless to him, part history of the racial, economic, and environmental failings that have led to our current crises, his latest book bluntly asks, “What happened?”
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[@JeremyHelm]

41:23 money & decentralization

[@halmerrill353]

Is this for real? Only one comment so far? Great presentation by one of the best, Bill Mckibben!

[@hughwabi]

Its a shame that people accept one persons memories. I am older than bill and grew up in Los gatos. Lived in NYC. Alaska and Europe. I fed people and housed them.

[@mgdougherty]

What exactly do you mean by this, relative to Bill’s talk?

[@Praisethesunson]

I don't mean to blow your mind. But systemic problems require a scale you cannot match as an individual