Join the Saturday June 6 Online Talk by Bill McKibben, organizer, 350.org founder, author, and activist
Start: 2020-06-06 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2020-06-06 20:30:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
This is a virtual event
Bill McKibben will speak online and then field questions:
A Crisis Inside a Crisis: What Covid Might Teach Us About Dealing With Climate.
In this talk, Bill take us to another level of the severity of climate change.
Bill is a US activist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. Bill is also the founder and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has been an inspiration to many in the climate effort. He is the author of several books including The End of Nature (1989).
Wikipedia writes nicely, of Bill, "he was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013.[8] Foreign Policy magazine named him to its inaugural list[9] of the 100 most important global thinkers in 2009 and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.[10] In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist"[11] and Time magazine book reviewer Bryan Walsh described him as "the world's best green journalist".[12] In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "mobilising growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong action to counter the threat of global climate change."[13]
Please sign up on the right to receive the Zoom link for the day before the event. This presentation will also be live broadcast on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NorthernAZClimateChange/. Note there will be two live sessions with Bill, this one for America, Australia, New Zealand. The other presentation, 7 hours earlier, reaches Australia, New Zealand, America and can be found at this link.
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