Who's the Best Candidate for Green Issues? - Bill McKibben

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/24/Environmentalist_Bill_McKibben_in_Conversation

Environmentalist author Bill McKibben discusses which of the 2008 Presidential candidates would produce the best record on environmental issues.

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Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben is known for exploring civic engagement on such issues as global warming, alternative energy, and human genetic engineering. Imbued with a sense of urgency, his writing offers perspectives on integrating science, society and environmental policy in a complex and evolving world.

McKibben's influential essays are collected in The Bill McKibben Reader and his numerous titles include The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Hope, Human, and Wild.

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, is the author's manifesto for moving beyond growth economics and transitioning to more local-scale enterprise.

In the summer of 2006, Bill McKibben organized the largest public demonstrations about climate change in the United States. He has since founded stepitup07.org, a group that pressures Congress to enact curbs on carbon emissions.

McKibben is a frequent contributor to periodicals as diverse as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. Previously awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, Bill McKibben received the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000 - City Arts & Lectures

Mark Hertsgaard is the author of five books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future and On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency.

A correspondent for Link TV and The Nation and L'espresso magazines, he has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The Guardian, Die Zeit and other leading publications around the world. His next book is called, Living Through the Storm: Surviving the Next 50 Years of Global Warming.

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[runswithscissorsalot]

wow. I agree with everything that this guy has said. he has an educated view on what he's talking about, not just 'waving the flag' so to speak.

[fcsoccerlevi]

nice video

we definitely need a democrat

[Rontoot2010]

Deep Economy by Bill McKibben.....fantastic read

[juscurious]

James Hanson is a junk scientist. Anyone who is so arrogant as to be absolutely certain about "global warming" is a poor scientist. There are many distinguished scientists who completely disagree with or at least are very skeptical about "global warming" or what is now known as climate change. Here is a fact. The global temperature has been flat for about 10 years and 2007 the temperature was DOWN. So far it looks like 2008 be again be down in temperature. How about that!

[horsegrl13]

Mr. McKibben is not a scientist, but he works with a team of the best scientists from around the world, ones such as our own James Hanson from NASA. We can get electricity from solar, wind, hydro. We can drive electric cars, or, better yet, ride a bicycle. Yes, it is going to be hard to give up the way we live, but the alternative is so awful that a little hardship seems tiny. The scientists know the science, but they need people like him to go around and rally the people-try to save the world.

[gowalkingathinline]

The people who have been in charge of the decision making in this country have looked the other way for too long. The results are showing up and it's disasterous for our future, the futures of our children.

Sometimes those who speak up about controversial subjects aren't necessarily the most qualified but they are often the most courageous.

[juscurious]

McKibben is a total crackpot. He does not have a scientific or technical background. He is a total hypocrite. If people hate us so much then why is the line to get in so long and growing? McKibben offers no solutions to our energy demands. He wants to stop building coal fired power plants and shut down the existing coal fired power plants that generate over 50% of our electricity. Of course he doesn't say where we would get the electricity we need. McKibben if a fool, a damm fool.

[samhellion]

read some real facts,