Biography

Bill McKibben was born on December 8, 1960 in Palo Alto, California, USA. He is a director, known for 350: The Most Important Number (2013), Blind Spot (2008) and Greenwashers (2010).

Environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming and climate change.

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont.

[on Real Time with Bill Maher October 5, 2012] What are we going to develop that replaces Iowa?

[observation, 2014] We may be entering the high-stakes endgame on climate change. The pieces - technological and perhaps political - are finally in place for rapid, powerful action to shift us off fossil fuel. Unfortunately, the players may well decide instead to simply move pawns back and forth for another couple of decades, which would be fatal. Even more unfortunately, the natural world is daily making it more clear that the clock ticks down faster than we feared. The whole game is very nearly in check.