The Outside Interview: Bill McKibben on the End of Nature
Outside Podcast17 Huhti 2019

The Outside Interview: Bill McKibben on the End of Nature

No one has done more to sound the alarm about climate change than writer and activist Bill McKibben. He’s been doing it since 1989, when he wrote his first big scary book on the topic, The End of Nature. Thirty years later, he’s still at it, and climate change is even scarier. The result is the book Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Out? In many ways it’s his darkest book yet, drawing on even more scientific evidence while investigating new threats, like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Outside editor Chris Keyes wanted to know, is there any hope at all? The answer is, Yes, there is a scenario in which our species actually makes it out of this mess. Chris caught up with McKibben at his home in Vermont to talk about it.

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Dispatches: The Hidden Graves of Kuku Island

Dispatches: The Hidden Graves of Kuku Island

Carina Hoang grew up in a wealthy family in Vietnam. She had a nanny to take care of her and a maid who cleaned up after her—she didn’t even wash her own hair. But when the Vietnam War broke out, she ...

24 Heinä 201846min

Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning

Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning

Most of the time, when lightning makes the news, it’s because of something outlandish—like the park ranger who was struck seven times, or the survivor who also won the lottery (the chances of which ar...

11 Heinä 201842min

The Outside Interview: The Simple Secrets to Athletic Longevity

The Outside Interview: The Simple Secrets to Athletic Longevity

Everyone gets older, but not everyone bows out of competition in middle-age. Journalist Jeff Bercovici wanted to know: Why? Why do some athletes flame out in their 30s and 40s, while others are still ...

26 Kesä 201837min

Dispatches: Shelma Jun Can Flash Foxy

Dispatches: Shelma Jun Can Flash Foxy

Climbing was Shelma Jun’s fallback sport. A snowboarder and mountain biker, she found her way into a climbing gym after injuring her shoulder and looking for an activity where she wouldn’t risk more i...

19 Kesä 201822min

Dispatches: Knox Robinson Crafts Running Culture

Dispatches: Knox Robinson Crafts Running Culture

Knox Robinson grew up watching his dad run and went on to race track himself at a Division I college, but he was never defined by the sport. He’s more of a renaissance man. For years, he gave up athle...

12 Kesä 201823min

Dispatches: Ayesha McGowan Wants to Be First

Dispatches: Ayesha McGowan Wants to Be First

Ayesha McGowan came late to competitive cycling. An accomplished violinist, she didn’t enter her first organized biking event until after college. Despite riding an old steel bike with a milk crate on...

29 Touko 201825min

Dispatches: Mikhail Martin is a Brother of Climbing

Dispatches: Mikhail Martin is a Brother of Climbing

When Mikhail Martin started climbing at a Brooklyn gym in 2009, he was one of very few African Americans to rope up. Today, his group, Brothers of Climbing, is working to change that. BOC is tackling ...

22 Touko 201817min

Dispatches: Bundyville

Dispatches: Bundyville

In 2014, the federal government rounded up Cliven Bundy’s cattle over a matter of unpaid grazing fees. So the Bundy family gathered a posse and took them back at gunpoint. Two years later, they took o...

15 Touko 201845min

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