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Posts Tagged ‘Bill McKibben’

Equinoxx

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , on March 24, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Equinoxes and solstices are geometrical phenomena. They mark the passage of time in ways that are easy to understand and more or less universal. I understand people’s desire to watch for them, to mark them out, and to even reclaim them as somehow more primordial than other kinds of temporal passage points. But changing seasons […]

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McKibben & the frontlines of war

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2016 | 5 Comments »

I recently found myself in a part of Mississauga, Ontario (a bedroom community of Toronto), in which more than 90% of the visible landscape (excepting the sky) appeared to consist of concrete, in the form of pavement, asphalt, buildings, and such. The remaining 5-10% — rows of evenly spaced short trees, shrubs, a few patches of […]

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Toward telling an adequate story

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2016 | 11 Comments »

This post builds on the previous one on the state of the eco-humanities. Here I focus on the substantive elements for narratives adequate to the Anthropocene. One of the challenges of our time is to learn to tell an adequate story of humanity’s current predicament. Next spring’s Stories for the Anthropocene Festival in Stockholm aims to deal with this challenge. Numerous […]

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Climate movement

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2014 | 7 Comments »

As I write, Bill McKibben is being interviewed left and right, Tom Ashbrook is interviewing Naomi Klein and pushing her to outline a vision that isn’t capitalism-as-we-know-it, Time magazine is saying this could be the largest march of its kind — which raises the question of what kind it is — and the People’s Climate March is […]

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