INTERVIEW: Bill McKibben: “The Biggest Fight of Our Time” In Which One of the World’s Best-Known Climate Activists Gets Personal About the Enormous Task of Saving Our Planet

                 Cover via Amazonby Madeline Ostrander, YES! magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/bill-mckibben-the-biggest-fight-of-our-time?utm_source=wkly20120217&utm_medium=yesemail&utm_campaign=mrOstrander

As one of the best-known writers on the world’s most dire environmental problem, climate change, Bill McKibben has long walked the razor’s edge between hope and fear.

In 2010, he published Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, a sobering account of what climate change has already unleashed - the ways in which the places we live, the water, weather, seasons, ecosystems, and oceans are changing irrevocably.

McKibben also founded 350.org, one of history’s largest and most ambitious political movements, uniting people around the world to fight climate change.

In this interview, YES! got personal with McKibben: Where does he find hope? What role does faith play for McKibben, a longtime Methodist Sunday school teacher? How does small-town Vermont, where the writer now lives, shape his ideas and activism? And what’s the best advice for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of what McKibben calls “the biggest fight of our time” - the fight to save the planet?

Editor's Note: This interview was filmed June 1, 2011 as part of YES! Magazine's 15th Anniversary Celebration. For the latest in the Keystone XL Pipeline fight, click here.