Salon: A self-described average 51-year-old book author with a receding hairline turned unlikely and somewhat reluctant activist, Bill McKibben these days is something of a rock star.
McKibben first stepped into the climate scene with "The End of Nature," his first book and one of the first to bring climate change to the publics attention. More recently, he founded 350.org, an international activist organization. In the course of 25 years, hes gone from writing for the New Yorker to being a major...