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American environmentalist and writer

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William Ernest McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. org and the Third Act Movement.

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Bill McKibben
said · Jun 20, 2023
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Fair or not, boomers and the Silent Generation have about 70% of the country’s money, compared with about 5% for millennials.

"What baby boomers can do about climate change, according to Bill McKibben," Yale Climate Connections (20 June, 2023)

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Bill McKibben
said · Aug 20, 2020
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So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a full-on global-scale crisis, one that disrupts everything.

130 Degrees, New York Review of Books, (20 August 2020)

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Bill McKibben
said · Sep 15, 2019
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On May 23, at the end of the last massive school strike, Thunberg and 46 other youth activists released an open letter to The Guardian urging adults to join in next time.

Make Friday the Biggest Day of Climate Action in Global History, (15 September 2019)

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Awards 6

2014Right Livelihood Award
2013Sophie Prize
2013Gandhi Peace Award
2012Rose-Walters Prize
2011Sierra Club John Muir Award
Guggenheim Fellowship

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About this person

William Ernest McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar of environmental studies at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign groups 350.org and the Third Act Movement. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019), and Here Comes the Sun (2025) about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects.

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Born 1960 · age 65
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