The author of “Snap into Action for the Climate” discusses activism and alarmism, and the need for dramatic and immediate change; this audio interview was placed alongside Tidwell’s article in the May/June 2008 issue of Orion magazine. Mike Tidwell is the author of The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities and Bayou Farewell, and is the founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.