Bill McKibben

American environmentalist and writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1960 · age 65

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.

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2023“Fair or not, boomers and the Silent Generation have about 70% of the country’s money, compared with about 5% for millennials.”In their words20 June 2023"What baby boomers can do about climate change, according to Bill McKibben," Yale Climate Connections (20 June, 2023)Read the whole statement

2019“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.”In their words15 September 2019Make Friday the Biggest Day of Climate Action in Global HistoryRead the whole statement

“Single most important stat on the planet: CO2 rose 3.5 parts per million last year, 2nd-highest annual rise on record. This is legit scary”In their words5 June 2019Twitter Post, (5 June 2019) Referring toRead the whole statement

2018“But in August 2018, a massive new study found something just as frightening: crop pests were thriving in the new heat.”In their wordsAugust 2018This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease...Is it Too Late?, Rolling Stone by BillRead the whole statement

2014Right Livelihood AwardAward2013“The logic of divestment couldn't be simpler: if it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage.”In their words22 February 2013"The case for fossil-fuel divestment"Read the whole statement

Gandhi Peace AwardAwardSophie PrizeAward2012Rose-Walters PrizeAward2011Sierra Club John Muir AwardAward2003“These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.”In their wordsp. 199Read the whole statement

1960Born8 December 1960

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McKibben speaking at a Bernie Sanders campaign rally at Southern New Hampshire University in January 2016

McKibben speaking at Rochester Institute of Technology, November 6, 2008

The People's Climate March 2014

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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.
20 August 2020 · 130 Degrees, New York Review of Books, Own words
The longer I think about @DNC insisting no-one hold a climate debate, the sillier it seems.
9 June 2019 · Twitter Post, Own words
If it is wrong to wreck the planet, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage.
2013 · Do The Math (2013), Own words

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Awards

Right Livelihood Award2014

Sophie Prize2013

Gandhi Peace Award2013

Rose-Walters Prize2012

Sierra Club John Muir Award2011

Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

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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