Top Climate Stories 2021 — Part 1
The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our time, but 2021 proved that resilience, ambition, and wherewithal can also create a better, zero emissions future.
The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our time, but 2021 proved that resilience, ambition, and wherewithal can also create a better, zero emissions future.
COP26 has ended with empty promises. What else did you expect?
“It’s time to say: enough. Enough of brutalizing biodiversity. Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet. Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. We are digging our own graves.”
This is the third article in a three-part series based around my recent interview with Bill McKibben, a legend in the world of climate activism and climate communication. In the first part, McKibben talked about climate grief, the climate crisis, climate activism, and US climate policy. In the beginning of … [continued]
In the second part of my two-part interview with Bill McKibben, we spent a lot of time talking about Elon Musk, Tesla, and social trust. That included getting into the topic of unions, the UAW itself, cryptocurrency, and whether or not people with nefarious — or at least selfish and … [continued]
Bill McKibben and Greta Thunberg have different opinions about the future of climate action. Which one is right?
In this episode of CleanTech Talk, renowned climate author and social movement leader Bill McKibben and I talk about the climate change crisis we’re quickly rolling into, climate grief and how to deal with it, US climate policy, rampant conspiracy theories, the great energy transition, and more. Listen to this … [continued]
Harvard announces it will no longer support the fossil fuel community, leading activists to push other universities to do the same.
The climate activist Bill McKibben says we need to remind ourselves how the recent novel temperatures are affecting the planet itself.
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By David S. Meyer, author & professor the University of California, Irvine. When TC Energy announced that it was cancelling its planned Keystone XL pipeline on June 9, management didn’t congratulate or even credit the tens of thousands of activists who’d battled against … [continued]