Attempt to mobilize older Americans (w/ Bill McKibben)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Skullduggery presents an episode of The Climate Crisis Podcast hosted by Yahoo News Senior Editors David Knowles & Ben Adler. In this episode, Adler talks to longtime environmental activist and journalist Bill McKibben about his newest venture: Third Act, an organization intended to mobilize older Americans in the fight against climate change and in defense of voting rights. McKibben tells Adler his thoughts on the outcome of the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, why he is trying to engage Americans ages 60 and older, and how he thinks climate activism must turn towards the private sector.
GUEST:
- Bill McKibben (@billmckibben), Author, Educator, Environmentalist and founder of http://350.org and http://ThirdAct.org
HOSTS:
- Ben Adler (@badler), Senior Climate Editor @YahooNews, Host of @Climate_Podcast
- David Knowles (@writerknowles), Editorial Senior Manager at @YahooNews, Host of @Climate_Podcast
RESOURCES:
- The Climate Crisis Podcast - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Wildfires are scorching the West Coast, leaving behind a path of death and destruction. |
| 0:07.9 | Forecasters call it a bomb cyclone. |
| 0:10.5 | Wins of 150 miles per hour. |
| 0:14.2 | Tens of millions of Americans are dealing with dangerously high temperatures with many |
| 0:18.8 | areas hitting triple digits. |
| 0:21.6 | Scientists say climate change is worsening flooding around the world. |
| 0:25.1 | This is going to get really ugly, really fast here. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the Climate Crisis Podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm host David Knowles and I'm here with co-host Ben Adler and we'd like to welcome the Skull |
| 0:38.6 | Duggery audience to this episode of the podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | Ben, today you're interviewing activist and environmentalist Bill McKibbin and he's |
| 0:49.6 | somebody who plays a central role in helping mobilize people to the fight against climate |
| 0:56.7 | change. |
| 0:58.3 | And I'm curious what you talked about in terms of how the divestment movement for fossil |
| 1:05.3 | fuels, that is trying to pressure financial institutions, colleges, even state governments |
| 1:12.0 | to divest themselves of all investments in fossil fuels. |
| 1:17.5 | How is that going to help in the fight against climate change over time? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, McKibbin has been watching engaging and seeing with increasing frustration, how difficult |
| 1:30.0 | it is to get the political system to deliver strong action to combat climate change by |
| 1:39.1 | transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy. |
| 1:44.2 | And you see that right now in Congress with all of the provisions related to climate |
| 1:49.1 | change that have been removed from build back better, which still hasn't passed the Senate |
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