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He is the founder of the environmental organizations step it up and, and was among the. Pioneering environmentalist bill mckibben hopes to take his readers by the collars and shake them in his new climate change wakeup call, eaarth. While it is mostly accepted that the science behind global warming is legitimate, the main argument against immediate action is that there are more pressing issues at hand and that global warming is something to prepare for in the future. While analyzing the way these big corporations operate with one another, he reveals to the reader the negative effects that this structure. Rebecca solnit, author of a paradise built in hell and hope in the dark bill mckibben foresaw the end of nature very early on, and in this new book he blazes a path to help preserve natures greatest treasures.
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