Prophetic Environmentalism: Bill McKibben A 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 "journalist" man. Regardless of environmental difficulties, the course of his career – and his life – changed after he wrote a long piece in which he literally tracked down where everything in his apartment was made. Traveling for this piece introduced him to the "real world," and in 1987 he left the New Yorker to live in the Adirondack Mountains with his girlfriend ("McKibben, Bill"). It was here that he wrote his first book, The End of Nature; a book that thrust him into the environmental limelight and provided a basis for all his other works. McKibben was only 27 when he finished The End of Nature, and he thought that by calling attention to global warming and what human interference has done to the meaning of nature, people would read the book and policies would change. He had no idea what he was necessarily getting himself into. He never considered himself an activist, he just reported (Greenfeld). He did not provide solutions in the book, but used a lot of scientific evidence warning of the possible imminent destruction of nature (if it is not already destroyed) intertwined with anecdotes from his experiences in nature (White 110). The End of Nature is as important as a keystone in McKibben's career as it is a prophetic message about the effects of global warming and the end of the human idea of ​​nature that has been proven correct time and time again over the years. The main arguments in The End of Nature is that, as a result of human consciousness... middle of paper......l McKibben's 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 Natural Writing. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990. 1120-130. Print.Greenfeld, Karl Taro. "Bill McKibben's Battle Hymn." Bloomberg Businessweek 2013: 54. Academic OneFile. Network. April 28, 2014. "Mckibben, Bill." Electronic Current Biography (Bio Ref Bank) (1997): Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson). Network. 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. 350.org Nonprofit, 2008. Web. April 25, 2014. White, Richard. “The Emersonian Vision of Bill McKibben.” Raritan 31.2 (2011): 110-125. Premier of academic research. Network. April 26. 2014.