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 Tuesday, September 03, 2019 Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need Business as usual is what’s doing us in. We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in the midst of an enormous physical crisis. Because we burn so much coal and gas and oil, the atmosphere of our world is changing rapidly, and that atmospheric change is producing record heat. July was... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Youth to Adults—Join Us in the Climate Fight So far it’s been the hottest summer ever recorded — June was the hottest June, and July was the hottest month ever. France, Germany, Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands had their hottest days of all time, joining countries from Cuba to Vietnam and Togo to the Reunion Islands. This is dangerous... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 10, 2019 The Climate Movement: What's Next? What Is the Climate Movement's State of Play? I came to climate activism gradually. In 1989, when my book The End of Nature was published, it was the first book on global warming for a general audience. For the next fifteen, I worked mainly as a writer and speaker. That’s because I was analyzing... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 24, 2019 We’re Stepping Up—Join Us For a Day to Halt This Climate Crisis On 20 September, at the request of the young people who have been staging school strikes around the world, we’re walking out of our workplaces and homes to spend the day demanding action on the climate crisis, the greatest existential threat that all of us face. It’s a one-day climate strike, if... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 11, 2019 Glaciers and Arctic Ice Are Vanishing. Time to Get Radical Before It's Too Late Forget “early warning signs” and “canaries in coalmines” – we’re now well into the middle of the climate change era, with its epic reshaping of our home planet. Monday’s news, from two separate studies, made it clear that the frozen portions of the Earth are now in violent and dramatic flux. The... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 16, 2019 A Future Without Fossil Fuels? “Kingsmill Bond” certainly sounds like a proper name for a City of London financial analyst. He looks the part, too: gray hair expertly trimmed, well-cut suit. He’s lived in Moscow and Hong Kong and worked for Deutsche Bank, the Russian financial firm Troika Dialog, and Citibank. He’s currently “... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Students are Striking for Action on Climate Change—a Truancy Everyone Should Applaud Consider this a note explaining why one of us will be absent from school on March 15 — and why everyone else should applaud this truancy. Beginning last August, a Swedish schoolgirl named Greta Thunberg went on strike from her classes, choosing instead to spend the days on the steps of the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 24, 2019 The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein’s Encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists One imagines that Senator Dianne Feinstein would like a do-over of her colloquy with some young people on Friday afternoon. A group of school students, at least one as young as seven, went to the senator’s San Francisco office to ask her to support the Green New Deal climate legislation. In a video... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Climate Change Is Scary—Not the Green New Deal Myron Ebell of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, the man who led the drive to pull America out of the Paris climate accords, said the other day that the Green New Deal was a “back-to-the-dark-ages manifesto.” That’s language worth thinking about, coming from perhaps the Right’s... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 13, 2019 Ocasio-Cortez's Climate Genius Stroke: Her #GreenNewDeal Is the Most Serious Response to the Crisis Yet Ruing the day that they mocked her clothing or dancing, some critics have decided to train their fire on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s brain instead. She didn’t know the three branches of government; she overstated how much the Pentagon had wasted. If, a writer in the Washington Post suggested, this kind of imprecision persists, “responsible self-government becomes impossible.” Read more |