YES! Illustration by Jensine Eckwall. Physics can impose a bracing clarity on the normally murky world of politics. It can make things simple. Not easy, but simple. Most of the time, public policy is a series of trade-offs: higher taxes...
Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and New York) probing the biggest fossil fuel company on Earth (ExxonMobil), while both Democratic presidential candidates are...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben connected climate impacts with concerns about the Zika virus in this Guardian op-ed. From the article: …think about the women who are already pregnant, and who will spend the next months in a quiet...
When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that your hair and your fingernails kept growing after you died. The lesson seemed to be that it was hard to...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was asked five questions about the Paris climate agreement. From the article: What should be the focus of climate activism campaigns going forward? Pace, speed, velocity: If we go at the rate that the...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben and author Naomi Klein’s participation in a mock trial of ExxonMobil at the Paris Climate talks was reported in the National Observer. From the article: The event, “Exxon v. the People,” highlighted a New...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben’s op-ed on the significance of the Paris climate talks was published in the LA Times. From the article:
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben asked whether Exxon Mobil broke the law in its conduct on climate change in his ‘Opposing View’ editorial in USA Today. From the article: USA TODAY has barely written about the undisputed facts of...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben’s Letter to the Future was published on Ecowatch ahead of the Paris Climate talks. From the letter: Dear Descendants, The first thing to say is, sorry. We were the last generation to know the...
The key passage — the forward-looking passage — of President Obama’s speech last week rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline came right at the end, after he rehashed all the arguments about jobs and gas prices that had been litigated...