Bill McKibben

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10 09 2024 | 08:24

If Trump wins the election, this is what's at stake

Here is the biggest thing happening on our planet as we head into the autumn of 2024: the Earth is continuing to heat dramatically. Scientists have said that there’s a better than 90% chance that…

27 05 2024 | 08:20

The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action

I remember the first time I heard the 1.5C target. It was in a room at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009. With the expectation of a binding agreement slipping away and negotiations failing, some…

29 11 2022 | 09:21

How to Pay for Climate Justice When Polluters Have All the Money

The climate summit just concluding in Egypt ran hard into one of the world’s greatest structural problems: most of the money is in the Global North, but most of the need is in the Global South.…

07 06 2022 | 22:24

We older people must fight for a better America, and world, for younger generations

Ihad the chance this month to spend a couple of weeks on an utterly wild and remote Alaskan shore – there was plenty of company, but all of it had fur, feathers or fins. And there was no way to hear…

16 09 2021 | 12:34

Climate activists are being killed for trying to save our planet. There is a way to help

Last year, there were a record 227 killings globally. It is our duty to keep resisting the insatiable forces that led to their deaths.

26 05 2021 | 07:49

The Particular Psychology of Destroying a Planet.

What kind of thinking goes into engaging in planetary sabotage? Two weeks ago, I looked at the question of the anxiety that the climate crisis is causing our psyches. But, if you think about it,…

20 04 2021 | 10:42

The Powerful New Financial Argument for Fossil-Fuel Divestment.

A report by BlackRock, the world’s largest investment house, shows that those who have divested have profited not only morally but also financially.

05 10 2020 | 11:04

Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do.

To understand the planetary importance of this autumn's presidential election, check the calendar. Voting ends on November 3—and by a fluke of timing, on the morning of November 4 the United States…

07 05 2020 | 07:03

‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’: Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal.

It hurts to be personally attacked in a movie. It hurts more to see a movement divided If you’re looking for a little distraction from the news of the pandemic — something a little gossipy, but with…

25 04 2020 | 13:38

This Earth Day, we must stop the fossil fuel money pipeline.

Taking down the fossil fuel industry requires taking on the institutions that finance it. Even during a pandemic, this movement is gaining steam.

07 02 2020 | 07:46

When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low.

A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget. Americans elected Donald Trump, who insisted climate change was a hoax –…

25 11 2019 | 13:17

Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice.

What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. There’s nothing like the giant oil companies to…