Hitting Home

One of the more articulate and persistent voices making the climate crisis relevant and personal has been Bill McKibben. He's the guy I first heard call for considering the Climate Crisis a moral issue, the most important moral issue since Civil Rights. He's also a terrific writer, very important in getting attention.

He had a nice short piece in Orion that's been republished in Sentient Times, a very useful and free publication (though it's pretty hard to tell one issue from another), and it's on the web here.

It begins: Can you feel the mood shifting? I can. A year of spiking speculation about peak oil and the death of suburbia has rattled lots of Americans. Plenty of people suddenly feel that real, civilization-shaking change might be around the next corner. And plenty of them also feel frozen in the headlights, unsure what, if anything, to do about it. Other than wait.