In defense of humanity
What I would give to listen in on a conversation between Bill McKibben and U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik! Put aside trade wars, incoherent presidential tweets, taxes, the budget for the Pentagon. McKibben has something to say that she needs to hear: “Put simply, between ecological distraction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.” Grappling with McKibben’s measured, tightly presented arguments is Stefanik’s job. Or it should be.
Maybe you’re tired of hearing about climate change. I’d guess that McKibben is certainly tired of talking about it. But it’s real, and it’s here. It means worldwide agricultural disruption, the permanent uninhabitability of coastal zones where hundreds of millions of our fellow humans live, heat so oppressive that people can’t function, fires, drought, and rising,
