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 Stories About: Bill McKibben AND climate AND cutesy AND environmental movement AND messaging AND Sierra Club
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Looking for a new GW metaphor: Canaries exhausted
No more canaries in coal mines, please |
Kit Stolz |
22 May 2007 |
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| While on a book tour recently, Bill McKibben made an interesting point in an appearance in Santa Barbara. McKibben -- a former New Yorker writer who wrote his first book on climate change back in 1989 -- told the crowd that to expect the Sierra Club and traditional conservationists to take on global warming with "the grammar of wildness" that John Muir drew from his life in the Yosemite Valley back in the 1860s was impractical and unfair. He suggested that &q ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, cutesy, environmental movement, messaging, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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