TomPaine.com - A Brilliant Heat Stroke

TomPaine.com - A Brilliant Heat Stroke

McKibben is clearly not satisfied with the somewhat muted response of America to onrushing climate change. As he notes unhappily, “the largest rally yet held in the U.S. about global warming drew a thousand people.” Moreover, the federal response is, in case you haven’t noticed, inconsequential, when it’s not actively hostile.

To get some response, McKibben, together with a few underpaid assistants, is organizing “the first nationwide do-it-yourself mass protest, and by far the biggest demonstration yet against global warming.”