DemocracyNow Interview: A scorching heat wave continues to fuel wildfires across southern Europe and parts of North Africa, resulting in hundreds of heat-related deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. The record-breaking temperatures come as Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has effectively killed President Biden’s Build Back Better climate legislation after stringing Biden... Continue Reading →
Strongly suggest giving this one a listen as Bill McKibben shares some viable Climate Adaptation updates... [...] We're joined today by the great environmental author, journalist and activist BILL MCKIBBEN of 350.org and ThirdAct.org to discuss the plan he recently spelled out in one of his "The Crucial Years" newsletters. It's based on an effort... Continue Reading →
This Machine Fights Fascism: ‘Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom!’
Quote pulled from Bill McKibben’s recent article…
+Climate scientist Peter Kalmus, arrested in civil disobedience actions with many of his colleagues last week, explains why researchers are increasingly willing to take to the streets: Earth breakdown is much worse than most people realize. The science indicates that as fossil fuels continue to heat our planet, everything we love is at risk. For... Continue Reading →
The Secretary General of the UN models how to think about climate change I can remember when some of us organized what may have been the planet’s first truly huge climate march, with 400,000 people descending on New York in 2014. Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to walk with us for a few... Continue Reading →
The World’s Top Diplomat Has Had It Up to Here
House Democrats grilled CEOs of Big Oil companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, Wednesday about rising gas prices and profiteering from the Ukraine war. We get response from environmentalist Bill McKibben and speak with Ukrainian environmental lawyer Svitlana Romanko about how the war in Ukraine is impacting energy markets around the world. “These are predatory... Continue Reading →
Making a Killing: Big Oil Reaps Record Profits Using Ukraine War as Pretext to Hike Gas Prices
Because they're down to the nub At 5 a.m. this morning we were supposed to get the report from Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It didn’t come—because delegates were still arguing. And the arguments were over the two most fundamental questions of the climate era: must we get off fossil... Continue Reading →
IPCC talks go down to the wire
Which is why solving the climate crisis might require aluminum bike panniers... Most of the time I’m writing about vested interest as the key obstacle to making the energy transition. And it is—without the endless campaign of delay, denial, and disinformation from Big Oil and its friends, we’d have started making big changes long ago.... Continue Reading →
Inertia is a problem too
Joe Manchin and the Biden Administration's Painful Turn from Climate Action Just as the Oscars were getting underway last night, the New York Times published a truly remarkable exposé that helps us understand the end of our planet’s climate system in helpful detail. Receipt-laden, it shows that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has devoted his... Continue Reading →
The Man Who Gobbed Up Earth
Unfettered free trade helped get us into the climate crisis. Perhaps there’s some poetic justice if restricting it can help with the solution. . The disastrous flooding in Europe last week is another reminder that the climate crisis is no respecter of borders: carbon (and wildfire smoke) floats above them and roaring rivers crash through... Continue Reading →
Can a Border Tax Help Slow a Borderless Crisis?
If the province’s oil is dug up and burned, it will be calculably harder to limit the damage from climate change. Some weeks ago, the government of Alberta wrote to me—and apparently to a number of other environmentalists and environmental groups. We are all subjects of an “anti-Alberta energy inquiry,” and have the right to... Continue Reading →
We Love You, Alberta—Just Not Your Tar Sands
It’s Not the Heat—It’s the Humanity | Bill McKibben | The New Yorker Magazine Rising air temperatures remind us that our bodies have real limits. It’s hard to change the outcome of the climate crisis by individual action: we’re past the point where we can alter the carbon math one electric vehicle at a time,... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 