[Unedited] Bill McKibben with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 5 August 2010

⏱️ 91 minutes

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We had to cut some great segments from Krista’s conversation with Bill McKibben. Here you can listen to it all, and tell us what you think of our edits from our produced show “Bill McKibben on The Moral Math of Climate Change.” A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on human responsibility in a changing natural world. See more at onbeing.org/program/moral-math-climate-change/209

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0:00.0	This is Speaking of Faith's Unheard Cut. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my
0:04.5	unedited conversation with environmentalist and writer, Bill McKibben. He's a scholar in
0:10.1	residence at Middlebury College and founder of free50.org, a global climate campaign.
0:16.1	I spoke with him on November 3rd, 2009, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul,
0:22.4	Minnesota. He was in the studios of Middlebury College in Vermont. This interview is included in
0:28.4	our program, Bill McKibben, on the moral math of climate change. Download the MP3 of that
0:33.8	produced show at speakingoffaith.org. My pleasure. You know, we're exact contemporaries.
0:46.4	Is that right? Yeah, I was at Brown and you were at Harvard and I have a feeling that I heard
0:51.2	years ago that we knew people in common, but I can't remember. I'm sure we do, but I think
0:57.3	even from those days. Long ago. Yeah, I was born in 1960 also. Yeah. And I have a daughter who was,
1:06.4	your daughter was born in 1993, 1973. Yeah, my, I have a daughter that exactly the same
1:11.8	as well. And where is she now? Well, we're in Minnesota. She's a sophomore. She's a sophomore.
1:18.8	Yeah. And so where high school is she going to there? She's going to a public charter
1:26.6	performing arts high school. Oh, how nice. Are you in the, you're right in the city there? Yeah,
1:31.6	we're in St. Paul, which is a city of neighborhoods, you know. Minneapolis has more the
1:38.8	more of the more the big city feeling to it. And our studios are in downtown St. Paul,
1:46.3	which is one of these downhounds is always struggling to stay alive, but we live in a great
1:50.8	little neighborhood kind of between the two cities. I pay attention to Minnesota high schools because
1:56.3	I'm the faculty advisor to the Nordic ski team here. We get many excellent skiers from Hopkins
2:05.2	and places like that. Yeah, actually one thing I'm concerned about with climate change is our
2:11.3	snow not staying on the ground. You and me both sister because I started cross country skiing when
2:16.8	I got here. And you had these because I'm probably the sway there. Every golf course turns into a
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