Climate activist Bill McKibben was on his porch listening to baseball (he thinks it was the Red Sox game) when he learned that President Joe Biden was dropping his White House bid.
The climate activist and author, who’s 63 and lives in Vermont, was thrilled.
It wasn’t because he dislikes Biden; McKibben thinks his presidency has been mostly successful. Rather, he thought Biden exiting the race meant better odds for keeping former President Donald Trump out of office and for staving off the worst impacts of climate change at a critical moment.
“We’ve gone through a period where we’ve described every election as the most important election of our lifetimes,” McKibben said. But given the stakes for the climate, he said, this election, “I’m afraid, really is the most important election, not only of our lifetimes, but possibly of our children’s and grandchildren’s lifetimes, too.”
