Noted author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will speak at the University of Oregon on Tuesday, Oct. 30! His lecture, "Building the Climate Movement," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
"It's no longer time to debate global warming; it's time to fight it," McKibben said.
McKibben will discuss the need to build a climate movement and precisely what is at stake. He will also touch upon some of the moral and spiritual dimensions of the problem, and will offer some practical advice about what each of us can do right now to help fight global warming.
McKibben is known by many people for his work in organizing a series of rallies held in 2007 across the nation called "Step It Up '07," in which citizen-activists demanded that Congress and the president take serious action to reduce carbon emissions by "80 percent by 2050." The scholar in residence at Middlebury College is the author of ten books about the environment and related issues, including the 2007 best-seller "Deep Economy." His newest book, "Fight Global Warming Now," which will be available at the lecture, is the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change.
This lecture, which is co-sponsored by environmental studies and the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, is free and open to the public.
