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I'm Krista Tippett.

This hour with Bill McKippen, we seek perspective, both factual and moral, on human responsibility

in a changing natural world.

McKippen wrote The End of Nature, the first book on climate change for a general readership

in 1989.

Only in the disappearance of nature as we have known it, he warned, may we finally realize

how essential it has been to human civilization.

Yet it's hard to know how to orient our minds and our lives to a sweeping scenario like

this, and to the constantly accelerating data on global warming that comes at us daily.

So we'll seek foundational knowledge we can trust that Bill McKippen has gathered

in two decades of being ahead of this curve.

And we'll explore the evolution of his moral imagination and his action, from a focus

on personal responsibility to a sense that what might save the planet would also renew

the skill of neighborliness and the meaning of human community.

From American public media, this is speaking of faith, public radio's conversation about

religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

Today, Bill McKippen on the moral math of climate change.

Bill McKippen is one of the most insightful and esteemed figures of our time on matters

of the environment.

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