Bill McKibben

co-founder of 350.org

Guest

Founder of the global climate campaign 350.org, distinguished scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont, and author of The End of Nature; former staff writer for the New Yorker magazine

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The biggest way to cripple autocracies like Russia is to stop financing fossil fuels entirely, says Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org.

US banks have funded Russian oil, should focus on clean energy instead: Bill McKibben

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