And it’s called Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, in Part 1, we discussed all the climate catastrophes of the last, it seems, few minutes, basically, even of just the last few weeks, and what’s happening with the Trump administration and what’s going to be happening in Bonn. But right now, we’re joined by Bill McKibben to talk about-well, he’s written a number of books on climate change, but this is his first novel. We’re headed off to the Bonn climate summit, and we’ll be broadcasting for a week from the U.N. His first book, The End of Nature, published in 1989, almost 30 years ago, was the first book for a general audience about climate change. I’m Amy Goodman, with Part 2 of our discussion with Bill McKibben. Witty, biting, and terrifyingly timely, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben's fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. Along with Vern and Perry, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of 'Ethan Allen Day' and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. In Radio Free Vermont, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that's become more popular than ever-seceding from the United States.
But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. Bernie Sanders A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic.Īs the host of Radio Free Vermont-"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"-seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. "We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact."
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