Bill McKibben, climate change writer, educator and organizer, was the keynote speaker of the fifth Norman Maclean Literary Festival.
The average age of the crowd listening to Bill McKibben speak at the Wilma Theater in Missoula over the weekend was probably close to his age - 63. But McKibben grasped that, and took it in a particular direction.
As the keynote speaker for the fifth In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Literary Festival put on by the Seeley-Swan Valley's Alpine Artisans, McKibben said 70 million Americans are over the age of 60. (In Montana, over 20% of the population is 65 or older.) This demographic "punches above their weight" politically, he said, because they all vote, and have about 70% of the country's f...
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