Today I was minding my own business on Facebook when I accidentally found out that Bill McKibben was to speak at Vanderbilt this evening at 5pm. I was pretty sure I’d heard him on NPR and liked what he had to say, so I shot an email to my resident environmental activist expert for more info. Mr. Expert replied fairly quickly to confirm the legit-ness of Mr. McKibben, so I vowed to commit to the last-minute decision to attend his talk.
I’m glad I did. It was informative + interesting, blah blah blah, here are the two (three?) things I’ll leave you with:
FIRST: Visit the 350.org website and sign up to be a part of the global movement to solve the Climate Crisis. If you don’t or haven’t already, basically you’re super lame and I have no idea why you’re reading this. (In the words of the most excellent Modest Mouse, “if you’re not thinking at all I’m not sure why you’re alive.”) (I guess at this point I have to actually sign up myself.)
SECOND/THIRD: Pictures!
Exhibit A – Mr. McKibben + pretty much the entire Ingram Hall audience
Exhibit B – The notes/sketches I made during his talk
Oh, and I just realized that Modest Mouse has a song about the climate crisis. Um, well, it talks about carbon and stuff, so I’m just assuming. Connections are fun!