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Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was interviewed on climate change and living local for this article in the Seacoast.
From the article:
"There a set of statistics that indicates the percentage of Americans who were happy with their lives peaked in 1956, and we've gone downhill since then," he said. "Our fossil fuel lifestyle that's causing us to burn huge amounts of energy is also causing us from seeing each other. We stay in our houses and our cars. We don't eat dinners together anymore."
He said he's heartened by the resurgence of farmers' markets in the country, saying he's convinced that people chat much more in farmers' markets than they do in the aisles of supermarkets.
"But we're still buying 95 percent of our calories from away. We understand better than we used to why it's important to buy at the local level but we don't often do it," he said. "It's like we've taken out a map and we understand where we're going, but we haven't gone down the road very far."
Unfortunately, he said, time is of the essence.
"We need to make changes sooner rather than later. We've already passed certain tipping points. The good news is that we're building a strong local movement. On the '350 day' last October, there were 5,200 demonstrations in 182 countries. That's very good to see."
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