I just stumbled across this video of the well-known author, activist, and environmental scholar Bill McKibben explaining that, while he has been actively supporting Barrack Obama as part of “environmentalists for Obama,” he thinks the most important task at hand is to elect a Democrat to the White House.
McKibben is a champion of the environmental movement and he made it clear that policy action on climate change will require broad-based and sustained political support for it. (Running time 4 mins.)
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About Timothy B. Hurst
should Senator Obama be President, I find it interesting that his most likely allies on climate change will be the center-right government of France and the Conservative party in the UK, and his best asset will be the GOP Governor of California…