The Importance of Sustainable Politics in the United States

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I often think that there are many more issues that unite people across the political spectrum than divide people. Most debates are best solved by compromise because there are debates between different groups of people with different ideas and interests. The differences one can't work with are the ones where big forces in our society say, pay no attention to physics. Once you melt the Arctic, nobody has a good plan for how you freeze it back up again. So our job now is to move fast to do this. And that's where the political divisions get in the way.

Most of us get that climate change is a global problem we need to solve, fast. But that can feel incredibly overwhelming when most of us don’t even know where to start. Bill McKibben is an environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively about climate change and global warming. With a refreshing lightheartedness and frank outlook, Bill discusses the emotions, ideas and data that keep him moving forward in the battle against climate change and outlines ways you too can take action to save the planet you call home. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts