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May 2021
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Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable

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Host Ronald Young Jr. speaks with Bill McKibben about how to break our destructive climate habits and about why we need a course correction urgently. Bill McKibben is an author, educator, environmentalist and the founder of 350.org.

Check out the links below for his suggestions about how to quickly and efficiently build a movement to slow down climate change before its too late.


350.org

Sunrise Movement

The Green New Deal

Fridays for the Future

Extinction Rebellion

Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050 Stanford News, 2015

Biden’s “all of government” plan for climate, explained, Vox Jan 2021

Strengthening the Financial System to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change, by Governor Lael Brainard, Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, December 2020


Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn, Sachar Mathias and Mia Lobel.

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