Bill McKibben: Why Climate Change Is the Most Urgent Challenge We Face

Bill McKibben, author and founder of the international environmental campaign 350.org, says that a global campaign to curb climate change, the ecological devastation that will result could make our planet uninhabitable. His appeal to citizens and policy-makers, the sixth video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, is a call to action as much as it is a sobering account of the damage we're already doing to our environment.

Go to www.thenation.com to learn more about "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," and to see the other videos in the series.

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• Bill McKibben
• The Nation
• On The Earth Productions
• Peak Oil
• 350.org

[PQPRockford]

Decentralizing the system is the key to survival. He's exactly right.

[SuperDickweed]

He sounds like that government agent off of the Matrix. Mr. Smith?

[barkulator]

Why do you people keep making it sound like WE can do something about this? WE buy the cars THEY offer us, WE buy the propaganda tools THEY sell us and the electricity THEY sell us so we can watch it. WE can only live where THEY want us to, WE don't make the laws or the products, WE don't write the curricula for the "schools," THEY do. THEY make the laws and the rules, what can WE do? Tell THEM, don't tell US.

[vmgqie]

doom on you doom on you doomm i can't what bring it on

[DeathTax101]

@SuperDickweed sounds? looks like too!

[nailgunacupuncture]

Peak Oil and Peak Gas are bigger than carbon dioxide. Coal or coalfire is only bad because it's a stopgap, and a false assurance that we /have/ energy security and can continue with business as usual.

[narayananraveen]

NOT DUE TO CO2, but due to Conc: DEICERS.NASA announced 2008 was MINIMUM SOLAR. The Winter of 2008 WILKINS Iceshelf collapsed.Solve the problem by capuring Deicers at EMISSION POINTS. More inf: Sarva Kala Vallabhan Group"

[mphello]

The ONLY way the worst effects of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) will not be felt is if there is less oil and coal and natural gas in the ground than we thought.

In THAT case, then we'd better move even FASTER to get off fossil fuels and nuclear power.