Bill McKibben | We Can Battle Climate Change Without Washington DC. Here's How




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McKibben writes: "The most telling item in Donald Trump's State of the Union address may have been what wasn't there: any mention of climate change, the greatest problem the world faces. And just as telling was the fact that official Washington seemed barely to notice." 
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