Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood writes: For those concerned about how messaging is communicated, I’d suggest that people need to replace the ambiguous and lukewarm phrases “climate change” and “global warming” with the far more accurate, evocative and impactful words “anthropogenic …
Tag: Bill McKibben
The 21st Century: an Era of Moral Extremes
It’s such an interesting time to be alive. The stakes are so high, and there seems to be a greater divide than ever between good and bad. Good things and people are better than they’ve been before. We have a …
Plunging Oil Prices and Renewable Energy
Alejandro Manrique is a colleague from Argentina, who, last year, demonstrated his great generosity: he donated a ton of time to translate a great deal of our content here into Spanish. He wrote me just now to wish me a Happy …
Will An Energy Policy Based on Natural Gas Fracking Be Effective in Stemming Climate Disruption?
Here’s a very solid article from Bill McKibben summing up the current approach to energy in the U.S. which, summarizing even further is as follows: a little wind, a little solar, but an enormous effort to substitute natural gas, harvested …
Tagged with: Bill McKibben, causing climate disruption, gas leaks, natural gas fracking, solar energy, Wind Energy
Demand Action on Climate Change
I haven’t been involved in a super-abundance of protest marches through the years, though I did carry a sign calling for the end of the war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, and, last summer, I took my wife and …
Obama’s Decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline
Bill McKibben’s and my position on the Obama administration’s approach to energy policy and climate change are identical. In a sentence: Obama can’t have it both ways; he can’t simultaneously be proud of the fact that we now extract and …
Bill McKibben, President Obama, and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Here’s a video in which one of my heroes, environmentalist Bill McKibben, speaks about the Keystone XL Pipeline. His point is that this decision is in the hands of one man: U.S. President Obama. With it, he will either live …
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Bill McKibben’s Fossil Fuel Divestment – A Skyrocketing Success
As described here, legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben’s suggestion that folks sell their holdings in fossil fuel companies has been accepted by a gathering wave of universities, churches and synagogues, city governments and pension funds. According to the article, “In the …
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Bill McKibben on Peak Oil and Environmental Activism
My friend Cameron Atwood sent me this masterpiece on environmental activism by Bill McKibben, and asked me to comment on what he writes about peak oil. I believe he’s correct; I think money and technology will converge to keep the …
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"Stop Investing in Fossil Fuels" – Bill McKibben’s 350.org
I wrote a piece the other day on Bill McKibben’s 350.org, which has launched a national campaign to persuade colleges, universities, churches, foundations, etc. to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry. I went on to say that lower demand …
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