

The Crucial Years
Bill McKibben
Crunch time for civilization--so let's get it right
Created 10 Aug 2021
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IPCC talks go down to the wire04 Apr 2022 • 17 1At 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 ...
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Inertia is a problem too01 Apr 2022 • 13 4Most 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...
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The Man Who Gobbed Up Earth28 Mar 2022 • 48 26Just 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-l...
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This is your world on fossil fuel25 Mar 2022 • 17 6So far today—today—scientists in the Antarctic have sent back word that an ice sheet the size of Los Angeles collapsed and disappeared sometime in the last week, amid polar temperatures as much as 70 ...
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Douse the fires18 Mar 2022 • 14 4Earlier this morning I published a long, long piece (far longer than can fit on Substack) in the New Yorker. It argues that the time has come for us to end—after 200,000 years—the central place of com...
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