Bill McKibben: Growing Global Movements

Tuesday 07 December 2010

by: Laura Flanders  |  GRITtv | Interview

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The environmental and climate justice movement isn't just about saving polar bears from melting ice, argues writer and 350.org founder Bill McKibben. It's about rebuilding connection and community, changing the way human beings live, and working in solidarity with human rights organizations across the world to improve all of our lives. And the biggest stumbling block to the growth of a global climate justice movement? It's right under our noses: our own Congress.

Bill McKibben is a recipient of this year's Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship, and he joins us in studio for a special one-on-one chat with Laura about the state of the climate justice movement, the Cancun talks, Obama's failure to act, and what we can do to change things before it's too late.

 

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Presently, I prefer the

 Thu, 12/09/2010 - 10:30 — Vic Anderson (not verified)

Presently, I prefer the current monkey-grinch movements against the Obamanible circumstances stacked against US! In the longer term, I proffer the BOWEL (Barack Obama's Worth Ever Less) Movement!! No more than 778 Days to GO!!!



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 Thu, 12/09/2010 - 11:58 — Anonymous (not verified)

Vic needs more fiber and better acronyms.



If you want to see an earth

 Thu, 12/09/2010 - 16:40 — David (not verified)

If you want to see an earth activist and writer who has a lot more courage and honesty than McKibben, check out Derrick Jensen. Read his book "What we Leave Behind." McKibben is too soft, and too compromising. Nor does he advocate the real and only solution to the planet's problems: dismantling industrial capitalism. He is too much a part of the green elite. Jensen is a realist and he breathes fire.