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Bill McKibben, St. Martin's Griffin: 'The months after the initial publication of Eaarth saw some of the most intense environmental trauma the planet has ever witnessed ... For Americans, the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began on April 20, 2010, may have provided the most powerful images - there was, after all, an underwater camera showing the leak up close. (Leak? This was not a leak - it was a stab wound that BP inflicted on the ocean floor, a literal hole in the bottom of the sea. If you ever had any doubts about peak oil, all it took was one view of the extreme places and pressures the oil companies now had to endure to find even marginal amounts of crude. The well that BP was drilling would have supplied only about four days' worth of America's oil consumption.)'

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-mckibbens-afterword-eaarth/1314648614



Truthout Interview With Bill McKibben

Mark Karlin, Truthout: 'Bill McKibben is one of the most venerable writers on the growing peril of climate change. Not content to simply write warnings of environmental implosion, McKibben is an inveterate activist. Most recently, he has been working with others to halt the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Disaster is not inevitable, McKibben believes. But it is likely unless saving our environment becomes a moral imperative upon which we act with urgency. Below is an exclusive Truthout interview with McKibben about his recent book, and current political actions.'

http://www.truth-out.org/truthout-interview-bill-mckibben/1314803404



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