Bill McKibben

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January 01, 1960

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Bill McKibben is the author of Eaarth, The End of Nature, Deep Economy, Enough, Fight Global Warming Now, The Bill McKibben Reader, and numerous other books. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, and was among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming. In 2010 The Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist," and Time magazine has called him "the world's best green journalist." He studied at Harvard, and started his writing career as a staff writer at The New Yorker. The End of Nature, his first book, was published in 1989 and was regarded as the first book on climate change for a general audience. He is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers including T...more

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Books by Bill McKibben

Average rating: 3.94 · 5,202 ratings · 1,109 reviews · 99 distinct works

	Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future 4.10 avg rating — 1,648 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet 3.96 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The End of Nature 3.93 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks 3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Age of Missing Information 3.79 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 4.29 avg rating — 125 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age 3.66 avg rating — 165 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For A More Joyful Christmas 3.59 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth 3.80 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families 3.56 avg rating — 105 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”
― Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

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“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

tags: challenge , environment , judgement

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“we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.”
― Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

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