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Few cities in the US are immune from the impact of urban sprawl. That quiet house with a yard, that piece of the country close to the city, comes with a high price as roads, subdivisions and shopping malls gobble up farmland and open space. Then there's the commute. It's not uncommon for people to spend an hour each way driving to and from work every day. The planet pays a high price. All those cars driving across our sprawling cities are a top contributor to the build-up of gases in the atmosphere linked to global climate change.
Bill McKibben, a former staff writer at The New Yorker, first sounded the alarm on global climate change with his best-selling book The End of Nature. He is one of America's leading journalists on the environment. Other books include The Age of Missing Information and Hope: Human and Wild. His articles appear in many major newspapers and national magazines.
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