The unstoppable Mr. McKibben
Bill McKibben is a Vermont author and environmentalist. The book he’s most known for, “The End of Nature,” was the first to introduce climate change to a general audience.
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McKibben, photographed during an unseasonably warm winter, lives on Vermont land once owned by poet Robert Frost.
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McKibben was one of 1,252 environmentalists arrested during late-summer protests in the nation’s capital.
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Ahead of this November 6, 2011, protest, McKibben asked supporters to surround the White House in a “giant hug.”
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Activists protest the Keystone XL pipeline in September 2011, two months before McKibben helped derail the controversial project.
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McKibben, who can still look uncomfortable in the spotlight, addresses a crowd.
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In 2009, people in 181 countries showed their support for a 350 parts per million carbon dioxide target. Here, Cape Town.
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Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
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Lebanon
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Trujillo, Peru
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Sandpoint, Idaho
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Sydney
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Shanghai, China
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Okavango Delta, Botswana
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India
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Belgrade, Serbia
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Paris
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Mexico City
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Afghanistan
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Koprivnica, Croatia
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Hollywood
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Debieh, Lebanon
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Stellenbosch, South Africa
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McKibben speaking in Times Square in New York City
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