Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org. His most recent book is Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
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Views Friday, April 20, 2018 100% Renewable Energy is Within Our Reach We watch in horror as the damages from climate change continue to mount. Last year, Hurricane Harvey dropped more rain on Houston than any storm has ever dropped on any American city, ever. Hurricane Maria set back development in Puerto Rico 25 years, according to early estimates. And the tab keeps... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Applaud Mayor de Blasio and NYC for Climate Courage: Righteous Pension Divestment, Legal Fight Against Fossil-Fuel Companies When I was a young man living in the city, back in the early 1980s, there were always small knots of three-card Monte players ripping people off in Midtown. But none of those mugs were New Yorkers, who would walk by shaking their heads; it was just tourists who fell for the patter. You can get away... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 08, 2017 Time Is Running Out for the Planet BillMoyer.com editor's note: I wasn’t one of the 50,766 participants who finished the New York City Marathon last weekend. Instead, I spent the average marathon finish time of 4:39:07 to read a book — obviously a small book. In the interest of disclosure, I didn’t even start the race, but that’s... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 01, 2017 Trump’s Stupid and Reckless Climate Decision People say, if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. We should be so lucky. President Trump has a hammer, but all he’ll use it for is to smash things that others have built, as the world looks on in wonder and in fear. The latest, most troubling example is his decision to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 19, 2017 On April 29, We March for the Future I t is hard to avoid hyperbole when you talk about global warming. It is, after all, the biggest thing humans have ever done, and by a very large margin. In the past year, we’ve decimated the Great Barrier Reef, which is the largest living structure on Earth. In the drought-stricken territories... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 25, 2017 Citizens Must Hold Government Accountable on Climate A few things that happened this week: one set of researchers announced that February was the planet’s fourth-warmest month on record, which is especially bad news since the El Niño that produced last year’s record-breaking heat is over and we’re supposed to be cooling a little. Another group of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 31, 2017 The Americans We Need As tens of thousands of people across the United States rushed to airports and took to the streets to protest Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration by Muslims from seven countries, and refugees generally; as four federal judges issued emergency orders to prevent immediate deportations... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 25, 2017 From Faith to Action: Fossil Fuel Divestment More Vital Than Ever In a world where too many institutions now worship power and wealth, the Church remains a citadel of the word, a place where ideas matter. And words have rarely been used with more power than by Pope Francis in his majestic Laudato Si . I spent several weeks living with it, as I wrote a d etailed... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 23, 2017 With the Rise of Trump, Is It Game Over for the Climate Fight? One possibility is, we’ve lost. It’s a real possibility, and we should consider it carefully instead of ignoring it because it’s emotionally unpalatable. I think the argument would go like this: The idea that humans would move quickly enough off coal and oil and gas to salvage the planet’s climate... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Rex Tillerson Is Big Oil Personified. The Damage He Can Do Is Immense In one of the futile demonstrations that marked the run-up to the Iraq war, I saw a woman with a sign that read “How Did Our Oil End Up Under Their Sand?” In nine words she managed to sum up a great deal of American foreign policy, back at least as far as the 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh in... Read more |