Plum Village Monastics in Conversation with Bill McKibben

Along with countless forms of social activity, the COVID-19 pandemic has understandably slowed down climate activism. Yet in this wide-ranging conversation with monastics from Plum Village, author and activist Bill McKibben points to a critical lesson of the pandemic and its relevance to the climate movement. Reliable information, science, and social solidarity (the willingness to change behavior on a massive scale in the interest of mutual care): together these save lives. As we ready ourselves for mass mobilizations at some point down the road and create new forms of online activism in the meantime, we have more to build on than ever. While young people have demonstrated their ability to ignite us with their urgency, indigenous and other faith communities are increasingly willing to offer a vision of the future centered not on humans, but on ecological wholeness in which humans thrive. Together, these are inspiring a new breadth and depth to our movement.