Day of Action on Global Warming Set for October 24th

Excerpt of speech with author and climate activist Bill McKibben, recorded and produced April 3, 2009 by Melinda Tuhus

Writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben was the first author to write a book about global warming for a popular, not a scientific, audience. "The End of Nature" was published in 1989. Since then, McKibben has written often about the growing threat of climate change, and in 2007, he and a half-dozen students at Middlebury College in Vermont, where McKibben teaches, organized Step It Up, a day for people to draw attention to the threat of climate change and to call on Congress to take action. Fourteen hundred climate change vigils, teach-ins, rallies and marches took place on April 14, 2007.

Since then, McKibben has focused on the number "350," which represents the parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere above which life as we know it on Earth is unsustainable. Because scientists have confirmed that the earth's atmosphere is already above the 350 carbon threshold, McKibben has declared an emergency and is organizing another day of action on Oct. 24, 2009 to promote a strong U.S. position at the global climate talks in Copenhagen this December.

The following is an excerpt of Bill McKibben's talk, delivered on April 3, 2009 at the Yale University Divinity School.

For more information on Bill McKibben's latest organizing effort, visit his website at www.350.org This segment was recorded and produced by Between The Line's Melinda Tuhus.

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