Bill McKibben





Bill McKibben

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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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Deep Economy: The Wealth of...
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a ...
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The End of Nature
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk...
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The Age of Missing Information
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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American Earth: Environment...
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Enough: Staying Human in an...
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Hundred Dollar Holiday: The...
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Maybe One: A Case for Small...
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“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”
Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

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

“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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