Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need

Business as usual is what’s doing us in.

Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the
atmosphere of our world is changing rapidily, and
 that atmosheric change is producing record heat.

We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in the midst of an enormous physical crisis. Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere of our world is changing rapidly, and that atmospheric change is producing record heat. July was the hottest month we’ve ever recorded. Scientists predict with confidence that we stand on the edge of the sixth great extinction event of the last billion years. People are dying in large numbers and being left homeless; millions are already on the move because they have no choice.

And yet we continue on with our usual patterns. We get up each morning and do pretty much what we did the day before. It’s not like the last time we were in an existential crisis, when Americans signed up for the Army and crossed the Atlantic to face down fascism and when the people back home signed up for new jobs and changed their daily lives.

Read the story from Yes! magazine - “Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need.”