Bill McKibben
The Guardian
Vermont, United States
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Climate change is the legacy of people over the age of 60. That’s why we must protest
I’m proud to be part of Third Act, a climate activist organization for people over the age of 60 → Read More
US banks are sacrificing poor communities to the climate crisis
It took decades to force banks to abandon racist redlining. We don’t have decades to avert catastrophic climate crisis → Read More
Volt Rush by Henry Sanderson review – hopeful study of the winners and losers in the race to go green
The journalist’s thorough investigation finds that corporations are unearthing alternatives to fossil fuels. Who will benefit? → Read More
The US norms the supreme court targeted this term all came from the same era
This is an attack on the epic social, political and cultural transformations of that remarkable period in the 1960s and 1970s → Read More
‘It cannot be activism as usual’: Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer on the way forward for climate justice
As the climate movement hits another impasse, activists Luisa Neubauer and Kumi Naidoo explain why we need to mobilise many more people from all walks of life → Read More
Us older people must fight for a better America, and world, for younger generations
Baby boomers were complicit in the decay of our civic life and cultural fabric – and we must play a serious role in fixing it → Read More
Autocracies and Fossil Fuels Go Hand in Hand
The extraction of hydrocarbons tends to support despotism, whereas sun and wind are much closer to being democratic. → Read More
Putin’s war shows autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand. Here’s how to tackle both
Democracies are making more progress than autocracies when it comes to climate action. But divestment campaigns can put pressure on the most recalcitrant of political leaders → Read More
This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats
After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must respond with renewables → Read More
It’s a fairytale that world governments will fix our climate crisis. It’s up to us
Thank climate activists for the fact that any progress was made in Glasgow. Unless we push hard, powerful interests don’t budge → Read More
This Movement Is Taking Money Away From Fossil Fuels, and It’s Working
The divestment campaign has taken much of the shine off what was once the planet’s dominant industry. → Read More
Youth and Age Unite to Demand That Banks Stop Lending to Big Oil
When both ends of the age spectrum come together, bankers had better pay attention. → Read More
It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side
One is the astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy. The other is the huge growth in the citizens’ movements demanding action, says academic and climate campaigner Bill McKibben → Read More
Climate activists are being killed for trying to save our planet. There is a way to help
Last year, there were a 227 killings globally. We must resist the insatiable forces that led to their deaths, says Bill McKibben, leader of the climate campaign group 350.org → Read More
Let’s heed the UN’s dire warning and stop the east African oil pipeline now
The fate of a planned line from Uganda to Tanzania will be the first test of whether anyone was listening to António Guterres’ call to end fossil fuels → Read More
Why Do We Eat Bad Food?
Mark Bittman’s new history looks at the economy and politics of junk food. → Read More
The University of Michigan divesting from fossil fuels shows that change is here
Relentless student pressure and the cold facts of the bottom line forced an institution with close ties to the car industry to reverse course in just six years → Read More
Book Review: ‘How to Avoid a Climate Change Disaster,’ by Bill Gates
In “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” the billionaire Microsoft founder lays out his concerns for the earth and some concrete ideas for the future. → Read More
Dear America: how do we create a better country in 2021?
We’ve asked a group of experts to share concrete ideas to address some of America’s deepest problems. Now we want to hear from you → Read More
Deb Haaland's ability, vision and ancestry would make her an ideal interior secretary
The Native American congresswoman from New Mexico has worked across the aisle and is backed by environmentalists → Read More