AP PHOTO/TOBY TALBOT
Enter
don’t try to fool myself that this is
changing the world—and in fact,
one organizing trip on an airplane
negates it. But I take those trips
because the only real hope is serious political change. My daughter
is 19, and couldn’t be smarter and
more aware; I don’t tell her stuff,
she tells me stuff.
Q&A
With so many issues to focus on, how
do you allocate your time? I think it’s
become clear the real battle is
with the fossil fuel industry. We
need to fight their worst projects—tarsands pipelines, coal
export terminals, mountaintop
removal, fracking. But we also,
maybe even more, need to figure
out how to go to the heart—take
on the octopus itself,
not just its tentacles.
HUFFINGTON
08.19.12
McKibben,
who has
led efforts
to block
construction
of the
Keystone
XL pipeline,
addresses
lawmakers in
Montpelier,
Vt., in 2007.