McKibben: Crunch Time for Obama on Keystone XL

Juan Cole 02/08/2014

Bill Moyers interviews environmental activist Bill McKibben on the choice facing President Obama on the Keystone XL pipeline:

McKibben argues that stopping the pipeline is a necessary first step to stopping the dirty tar sands industry and saving the climate.

McKibben’s web site is 350.org

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page