{"id":403206,"date":"2019-04-16T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-new-book-bill-mckibben-asks-if-the-human-game-has-begun-to-play-itself-out\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:53:13","slug":"in-new-book-bill-mckibben-asks-if-the-human-game-has-begun-to-play-itself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-new-book-bill-mckibben-asks-if-the-human-game-has-begun-to-play-itself-out\/","title":{"rendered":"In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they\u2019ll stay in the streets for at least a week. It\u2019s just the beginning of a series of global actions that will unfold in the coming days, as activists around the world raise the alarm about government inaction in the face of the growing climate catastrophe. The London protests come just days after schoolchildren around the globe left school again on Friday for the weekly \u201cstrike for climate\u201d and as the push for the Green New Deal continues to build momentum in the United States. The deal \u2014 backed by Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey \u2014 seeks to transform the U.S. economy through funding renewable energy while ending U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. We speak with climate activist and journalist Bill McKibben, who has been on the front lines of the fight to save the planet for decades. Thirty years ago, he wrote <em>The End of Nature<\/em>, the first book about climate change for a general audience. He\u2019s just published a new book titled <em>Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>TRANSCRIPT<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they\u2019ll stay in the streets for at least a week. It\u2019s just the beginning of a series of global actions that will unfold in the coming days, as activists around the world raise the alarm about government inaction in the face of the growing climate catastrophe. A spokesperson with Extinction Rebellion told<span> <\/span><em>The Guardian<\/em>, \u201cGovernments prioritize the short-term interests of the economic elites, so to get their attention, we have to disrupt the economy,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The London protests come&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/in-new-book-bill-mckibben-asks-if-the-human-game-has-begun-to-play-itself-out\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they\u2019ll stay in the streets for at least a week. It\u2019s just the beginning of a series of global actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}