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While many Santa Feans were preparing for the Halloween weekend, about 200 gathered at the Santa Fe Art Institute Friday night for something more frightening: a talk on climate change by activist and writer Bill McKibben.

He spoke about a prediction he’d announced canary-in-a-coal-mine-style 34 years ago in his book The End of Nature: The world would heat up to such a degree there would be no going back.

Brought in by the nonprofit developer Homewise Inc. to deliver the final lecture in the organization's Livability Speaker Series, McKibben presented his talk, “Yes in our Backyard: Climate Change and the Green Building Boom.”

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