Bill McKibben On Climate Change, Dakota Access Pipeline and Environmental Racism and Global Anxiety Over U.S. Presidential Election

Nov 7, 2016, 1:52pm CT

An artist's rendition of the Earth as it would appear should the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt. The image illustrates ocean levels rising by an estimated 67.5 meters. (Image by Kevin Gill/Flickr. Sources: ETOPO1 Global Relief 1 arc-minute elevation raster data provided by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. Satellite imagery from the NASA's Earth Observatory Blue Marble project.)

Bill McKibben On Climate Change, Dakota Access Pipeline and Environmental Racism and Global Anxiety Over U.S. Presidential Election

Nov 7, 2016, 1:52pm CT

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On today’s show:

Environmental advocate Bill McKibben on climate policy and its role in the 2016 presidential campaign.
We discuss environmental racism towards Native Americans with the founder of an advocacy organization fighting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
And international observations on global anxiety about the U.S. presidential election from a political expert who has recently spent time abroad.