‘Cut Her Slack’: America’s Most Prominent Enviro Wants Left-Wingers To Look Past Kamala Harris’ Fracking Pivot
Bill McKibben, perhaps America’s leading environmentalist, advised his fellow progressives to give Vice President Kamala Harris a break on the issue of fracking to help her chances of becoming president, according to…
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About Bill McKibben
William Ernest McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar of environmental studies at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign groups 350.org and the Third Act Movement. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019), and Here Comes the Sun (2025) about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects.
Everything about Bill McKibben →- Occupation
- writer, activist, environmentalist, climate activist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 8, 1960
- Website
- http://www.billmckibben.com/