Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and founder of 350.org, is initiator of Tar Sands Action.
Blog Posts by Bill McKibben
Articles by Bill McKibben
Subsidizing coal is like finding that beer-drinking college student and paying him to sit in a bar all day and night—it’s not just unnecessary, it’s ludicrous.
Corporations want to store up treasure on earth — that's their whole, entire, complete, and utter point.
There are many things they seemed to hold in common, not least an instinctive nonviolence, contrasting so sharply with the police, who so often let the logic of force drive their actions (they found out, as often in history, that the logic that works with criminals doesn’t really apply to idealists).
The real work has been done for years by indigenous leaders on both sides of the border.
This may be the largest civil disobedience yet around global warming.
