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In a Historic Wildfire Season, It’s Time to Follow the Lead of Young Campaigners
Using the west coast fires as the backdrop, McKibben discusses the big picture of climate change and the young activists who are stepping up. This article is part of McKibben’s New Yorker series, Annals of a Warming Planet
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What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
Why is it so hard to get Facebook to do anything about the hate and deception that fill its pages, even when it’s clear that they are helping to destroy democracy? And why, of all things, did the company recently decide to exempt a climate-denial post from its fact-checking process?This article is part of McKibben’s New Yorker series, Annals of a Warming Planet
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What Could Possibly Go Right: Episode 2 with Bill McKibben
In this episode of What Could Possibly Go Right? Conversations with Cultural Scouts, host Vicki Robins interviews McKibben about our concurrent crises of climate change, the pandemic, and racial injustice, and the lessons we can glean to build solidarity to make systemic change.
This episode originally aired on June 25, 2020
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What Stands in the Way of Making the Climate a Priority
Inertia and vested interest, it seems to me, are the two forces that make changing the system for the better so rare. Once things are as they are, some group benefits from them-and that group usually has more of a stake in maintaining the status quo than others have in changing it. This article is part of McKibben’s New Yorker series, Annals of a Warming Planet
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New Unity Needed Amid Challenges of New Global Age
Sachs discusses the current upheaval and changing form of globalization, arguing that global solidarity is essential to the safety of the planet.
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Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate Are Not Separate Issues
McKibben discusses the reasons why the two groups of Americans who care most about climate change are Latinx Americans and African-Americans. This article is part of McKibben’s New Yorker series, Annals of a Warming Planet
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Are We Past the Peak of Big Oil’s Power?
In this article, McKibben argues that as the economic prospects of the fossil-fuel industry weaken, its political power may wane, too. This article is part of McKibben’s New Yorker series, Annals of a Warming Planet
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