Posts tagged ‘Hurricane Sandy’

Bill McKibben: Connecting the Dots on Climate Change

by , posted on Friday, December 7th, 2012 at 3:03 pm

from The Nation

“We should not have called it Hurricane Sandy. We should have called it Hurricane Exxon,” says climate activist Bill McKibben. In the aftermath of a superstorm, Americans are finally making the connection between the changing weather and our fossil fuel addiction. McKibben took a break from his “Do the Math” tour, which calls on universities and other organizations to divest from the fossil fuel industry, to discuss the pressing structural changes we need to slow our warming planet.

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“If there was ever a wake-up call, this is it” — Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change

by , posted on Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 1:12 pm

from Democracy Now!

Bill McKibben (350.org) and climate scientist Greg Jones on Hurricane Sandy and climate change.

See also: McKibben’s “Do the Math” Tour, beginning November 7th.

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