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"In essence, we've done almost nothing as a world to grapple with the biggest problem that we've ever wandered into," says @350 co-founder @billmckibben on how the climate catastrophe has rapidly accelerated in the last 30 years. #DNlive
.@billmckibben says his new book "Falter" addresses "why we did so little for so long" about climate change. He attributes inaction to the "political ideology of this period — this sense that laissez-faire capitalism, that the market alone would solve every problem." 
Climate refugees from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are already facing severe weather that has put the vulnerable region at risk of losing its vital crops, says environmentalist @billmckibben. "There is such a deep drought that they can't grow anything there anymore."
