A Crisis Inside a Crisis: What Covid Might Teach Us About Dealing With Climate

There are no silver linings to a pandemic, but if we're going to go through this kind of trauma we might as well learn some things--here's my sense of what we should be thinking about as we come out of quarantine. Reality is real, since we've delayed so long, speed now matters, and solidarity is most important of all. -- Bill McKibben

As the world draws more and more parallels between the COVID-19 and climate crisis, Bill McKibben's message of equity and justice resonates as we work towards solutions that effectively combat both crises simultaneously. Around the world, weary people in many countries have begun to chart the promising slide of daily coronavirus cases and deaths—but the other crisis curves on our planet—the endless rises of temperature and carbon-dioxide concentration—show no such mercy.

Bill is a US activist, author, scientist, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. Bill is also the founder and leader of the first planet wide, grassroots climate movement, 350.org. He has been an inspiration to many in the climate effort. He is the author of a dozen books including  The End of Nature (1989). Bill was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities.

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Note: There will be two live sessions with Bill, this one at 9am (AZ time), and the other presentation at 4pm (AZ time). If either Zoom event reaches capacity, please watch via live broadcast on the NAZCCA Facebook page. If you register, you will receive a reminder email the day before the event with the Zoom link and the Facebook link.

After the talk there will be an opportunity for Q&A with Bill McKibben. This event is sponsored by the Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance and Fridays For Future.