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The Moral Imperative to Divest: Conversation with Bill McKibben and Caroline Levine
Today we speak with legendary climate activist Bill McKibben and scholar Caroline Levine. McKibben relates his long struggle to get companies to divest from fossil fuels and for the world in general to act immediately to seriously and substantially address this existential crisis. Levine tells of her efforts to get the giant pension fund, TIAA-CREF, to divest. She also talks about her new book, The Activist Humanist, and its relation to both her teaching and her activism.
Caroline Levine has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter, especially in democratic…
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