In this clip, environmentalist and author Bill McKibben talks about the need for environmentalists to generate the same passion for change as the civil rights movement. He believes that there is no way to force the government to take the crisis seriously without building a movement that gives them no other choice.
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The first episode of The Planet attempts to correct our use of the term “climate change”, arguing that what humanity really faces is change to all aspects of the biosphere, including loss of resources.