Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org. His most recent book is "Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?." He also authored "The End of Nature," "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet," and "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future."
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Views Tuesday, November 03, 2020 This Election Isn't About the Next Four Years. It's About the Next Four Millennia A ll American elections determine the character of the country for the next four years. And they have a lot to say about what the world will feel like too – that’s what it means to be a superpower. But this election may determine the flavor of the next four millennia – maybe the next 40. That’s... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now , a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidential election, check the calendar. Voting ends on... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 26, 2020 The Next Election Is About the Next 10,000 Years The upcoming election looks to be an apocalyptic turning point for our democracy—and our planet. In Turnout! Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency , political visionaries and movement leaders such as Bill McKibben define the urgency of this moment and provide a manual for turning out voters in an age... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 18, 2019 Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State's attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It's a landmark moment—one of the first times that Big Oil is having to answer for its actions—and James deserves great... Read more |
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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 |