The Moral Math of Climate Change, Bill McKibben
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The Moral Math of Climate Change, with Bill McKibben,
On Being with Krista Tippett, August 5, 2010
Here is a wonderful conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. It explores his evolving perspective on human responsibility in a changing natural world.
Bill McKibben is Scholar-in-Residence in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, and the founder of 350.org. He's the author of many books, including The End of Nature.
“The real negotiation underway is between human beings on the one hand and physics and chemistry on the other. We’re going to have no choice but to adapt, whether it’s gracefully or in violent and ugly fashion to that demand of basic bottom line of the planet. But I think that we retain the capacity to do it in elegant and graceful ways.”