Bill McKibben

Combining his reflections on growing up in a middle-class suburb with the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, the rise of the religious right and our environmental crisis, the author reveals how reclaiming the good parts of our shared legacy will tell a truer American story.

"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...

"PLANET OF THE HUMANS" dares to say what no one will-that we are losing the battle to stop ecological meltdown by following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road-selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. In the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement's answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids: too little, too late. This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal assault on our...