{"id":45501,"date":"2019-04-19T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45501"},"modified":"2019-04-19T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:38:05","slug":"falter-in-new-book-bill-mckibben-asks-if-the-human-game-has-begun-to-play-itself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45501","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFalter\u201d: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2019\/4\/15\/falter_in_new_book_bill_mckibben\">\u201cFalter\u201d: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they\u2019ll stay in the streets for at least a week. It\u2019s just the beginning of a series of global actions that will unfold in the coming days, as activists around the world raise the alarm about government inaction in the face of the growing climate catastrophe. The London protests come just days after schoolchildren around the globe left school again on Friday for the weekly \u201cstrike for climate\u201d and as the push for the Green New Deal continues to build momentum in the United States. The deal\u2014backed by Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey\u2014seeks to transform the U.S. economy through funding renewable energy while ending U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. We speak with climate activist and journalist Bill McKibben, who has been on the front lines of the fight to save the planet for decades. Thirty years ago, he wrote \u201cThe End of Nature,\u201d the first book about climate change for a general audience. He\u2019s just published a new book titled \u201cFalter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AMY\u00a0GOODMAN:<\/strong>\u00a0Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they\u2019ll stay in the streets for at least a week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFalter\u201d: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they\u2019ll stay in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-45501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-carbon-emissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45502,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions\/45502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}