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Bill McKibben on Leaving Behind a Better World
“Your legacy is the world you leave behind for the people you love the most”
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Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben has been pushing for climate solutions for decades. Now in his 60s, Bill’s working to organize people aged 60 and older with his new group called Third Act, to leave behind a better world for their loved ones.
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Bill McKibben on Leaving Behind a Better World
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Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben has been pushing for climate solutions for decades. Now in his 60s, he’s reflecting on how his generation approaches a warming climate differently than younger folks.
Bill McKibben: I mean, if you're 25, well, this is like self-defense. If we don't get the climate crisis under control, your whole life's gonna be warped by it. Look, I'm gonna be dead before the worst of this stuff kicks in. So for people my age, it's less about self-defense and more about kind of defense of — more about your legacy, about what you leave behind, which sounds like an abstract concept, but really your legacy is the world you leave behind for the people you love the most.
Bill’s working to organize people aged 60 and older with his new group called Third Act, to leave behind a better world.
Bill McKibben: And we do not want to be the first generation to leave behind a world that's worse than the one we found. But that's what we're doing. I mean, if there's three billion fewer birds on it than when we were born, that's not good, you know, that's a failure. And that's why we're doing what we can to try and correct it.
Hear more of Bill McKibben’s thoughts on the realities we’re facing with climate change on the Bring Birds Back Podcast. Listen in your favorite podcast app or at BirdNote dot org. I’m Tenijah Hamilton.
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