Prophetic Environmentalism: Bill McKibbenA Harvard graduate and former editor of the Harvard Crimson, Bill McKibben joined the New Yorker in 1982 as an editor straight out of college. His parents were writers and he always thought he would follow in his father's footsteps as a "newspaper" man. Unfazed by environmental issues, the course of his career – and his life, in fact – changed after he wrote a lengthy article in which he literally traced where everything was made in his apartment. Traveling for this play introduced him to the "real world" and in 1987 he left the New Yorker to live in the Adirondack Mountains with his fiancée ("McKibben, Bill"). It was there that he wrote his first book, The End of Nature; a book that propelled him into the environmental spotlight and served as the basis for all his other work. McKibben was only 27 when he completed The End of Nature and believed that by bringing attention to global warming and what human interference has done to the sense of nature, people would read the book and the policies would change. He had no idea what he was necessarily getting into. He never considered himself an activist, he was just reporting (Greenfeld). He did not provide any solutions in the book, but he used extensive scientific evidence warning of the possible imminent destruction of nature (if it is not already destroyed) interwoven with anecdotes from his own experiences in the nature (White 110). The End of Nature is as important a cornerstone in McKibben's career as a prophetic message about the effects of global warming and the end of the human idea of ​​nature that has been proven right time and again over the years. years. The main arguments of The The end of nature is the result of human consumption... middle of paper ......l McKibben Books on global warming, local economies, nature, population control, sustainability and more. Henry Holt and company, 2013. Web. April 25, 2014. Finch, Robert and John Elder. “Bill McKibben: From Nature’s End.” The Norton Book of Nature Writing. New York: WW Norton, 1990. 1120-130. Print.Greenfeld, Karl Taro. “Bill McKibben’s Battle Hymn.” Bloomberg Businessweek 2013: 54. Academic OneFile. Internet. April 28, 2014. “Mckibben, Bill. » Current Electronic Biography (Bio Ref Bank) (1997): Biographical Reference Bank (HW Wilson). Internet. April 26, 2014. Odenbaugh, Jay. “Bill McKibben on the End of Nature.” Green thoughts. Blogspot.com, September 28, 2006. Web. April 25, 2014. “What we do. » 350.org. Nonprofit 350.org, 2008. Web. April 25, 2014.White, Richard. “The Emersonian Vision of Bill McKibben.” Raritan 31.2 (2011): 110-125. Premier Academic Research. Internet. April 26. 2014.