Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and activist whose 1989 book The End of Nature was the first work on climate change written for a general audience. He went on to found the global climate movement 350.org.

Bill McKibben began his career as a staff writer at The New Yorker before turning to the environment. His first book, The End of Nature (1989), was a prophetic, philosophically rich warning about climate change — the first to bring the issue to a general readership — and it has been translated into more than two dozen languages.

McKibben has since written many influential books on the environment, energy, and human futures, and became one of the world’s most prominent climate activists, co-founding 350.org, which organized some of the largest climate demonstrations in history. His work combines rigorous argument, graceful prose, and moral urgency.

A recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and many other honors, McKibben is recognized as one of the founding voices and leading advocates of the global climate movement.