With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joins forces with a Vermont beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole. Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight - from the centre of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers. With empathy and passion he makes the case for a renewed commitment on both levels, telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and building a social movement that's still cresting.
- ISBN10 1250048710
- ISBN13 9781250048714
- Publish Date 29 July 2014 (first published 17 September 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English