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Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community

by Bill Mckibben

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Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world’s greatest threat

 

Hurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government’s report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will be greater than the Great Depression and both world wars—combined. Bill McKibben, the author of the first major book on global warming, The End of Nature, warns that it’s no longer time to debate global warming, it’s time to fight it.

 

Drawing on the experience of Step It Up, a national day of rallies held on April 14, McKibben and the Step It Up team of organizers provide the facts of what must change to save the climate and show how to build the fight in your community, church, or college. They describe how to launch online grassroots campaigns, generate persuasive political pressure, plan high-profile events that will draw media attention, and other effective actions. This essential book offers the blueprint for a mighty new movement against the most urgent challenge facing us today.

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Drawing on the experience of Step It Up, a national day of rallies held on April 14, McKibben and the Step It Up team provide the facts about what must change to save the climate, and show readers how to build the fight in their community, church, or college.

About the Author

Bill McKibben is the author of ten books, including The End of Nature and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper’s and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. The Step It Up team are activists Phil Aroneanu, Will Bates, May Boeve, Jamie Henn, Jeremy Osborn, and Jon Warnow. Together, they have organized more than five hundred events to fight global warming.

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ISBN:
9780805087048
Subtitle:
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
Author:
Mckibben, Bill
Author:
McKibben, Bill
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Subject:
Civics
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Subject:
Civics & Citizenship
Subject:
Public Policy - Environmental Policy
Subject:
POL044000
Subject:
Green movement
Subject:
Global warming
Subject:
Political Advocacy
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Subject:
Green movement -- United States.
Publication Date:
October 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
202
Dimensions:
806x528x59 42

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