Bill McKibben
Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989 and founded 350.org and Third Act.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backI previously personally supported burning bio-mass as an alternative to fossil fuels—in my case, when the rural college where I teach replaced its oil furnaces with a wood-chip burner more than a decade ago, I saluted it.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsBut as more scientists studied the consequences of large-scale biomass burning, the math began to show that it would put large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere at precisely the wrong moment