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Bill Mckibben

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

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Bill Mckibben

What unites these two crises is combustion. Burning fossil fuel has driven the temperature of the planet ever higher, melting most of the sea ice in the summer Arctic, bending the jet stream, and slowing the Gulf Stream. And selling fossil fuel has given Putin both the money to equip an army (oil and gas account for sixty per cent of Russia’s export earnings) and the power to intimidate Europe by threatening to turn off its supply.

Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom

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Bill Mckibben

President Biden should immediately invoke the Defense Production Act to get American manufacturers to start producing electric heat pumps in quantity, so we can ship them to Europe where they can be installed in time to dramatically lessen Putin’s power.

A World at War

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Bill Mckibben

We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.

The fierce urgency of now by Bill McKibben

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Bill Mckibben

Yes, windmills and dams deface the landscape but the climate crisis demands immediate action. . .