6/28/2023 0 Comments Oil and honey by bill mckibben![]() ![]() ![]() Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole. Some of those would come at the local level, and McKibben recounts a year he spends in the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Hurricane Sandy scouring the Atlantic, the need for much deeper solutions was obvious. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold.Īnd yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at best a stepping-stone. But that’s where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet.īill McKibben is not a person you’d expect to find hand-cuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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