President-Elect Obama’s Big Climate Challenge

AS HE assumes the presidency, Barack Obama must make climate-change legislation and investment in green energy top priorities. And, he must be ready to take bold—and politically unpopular—action to address global warming. Read what one of the best "minds" on the environment has to say.  Bill McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. His The End of Nature, published in 1989, is regarded as the first book for a general audience on global warming. He is a founder of 350.org, a campaign to spread the goal of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million worldwide. His most recent book is American Earth, an anthology of American environmental writing.

Tom Patrick
WindStar Wildlife Institute