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What Bill McKibben thinks about America

@bill-mckibben · 44 positions · 1 change of mind · On ppll ↗

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989 and founded 350.org and Third Act.

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6 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Bill McKibben has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingThe Trump presidency is characterized by idiocy, perfidy, and graft.

    Their wordsYou could pick any week in the last two years and come up with roughly the same kind of idiocy and perfidy and graft; the Trump presidency is an ongoing evil MadLibs.

    ↗The President is Equal Parts Moron and Monsterbillmckibben.substack.com

  2. 3 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingThe United States is currently engaged in a battle against the transition to clean electricity.

    energy

    Their wordsUnlike the 25 Asian countries that have outlined a strategy for transition to clean electricity, we’re currently engaged in a battle against that transition.

    ↗From Bad to Betterbillmckibben.substack.com

  4. 5 weeks earlier

  5. Our readingElon Musk's dismantling of US humanitarian aid will cause millions of indirect deaths, making him one of the deadliest people in history.

    Their wordsMusk's victims already number in the millions-a Lancet study predicts 14 million by 2030 as the indirect results of shutting down America's humanitarian work, which puts him up there in the Stalin/Mao category, and almost certainly the most deadly human of this millennium.

    ↗Two Menbillmckibben.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  6. 2 days earlier

  7. Our readingThe United States has become the world's biggest force pushing to keep burning fossil fuels even as the world shifts away from oil.

    energy

    Their wordsin a world beginning to turn away from oil, the United States has become the biggest force trying to insure we keep pouring carbon into the atmosphere.

    ↗The growing rumblebillmckibben.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  9. Our readingThe upcoming U.S. elections are the last real chance to shift fast enough from oil and gas to solar and wind to limit global warming.

    solarenergyphysicsclimate change

    Their wordsBut physics is giving us very little time now, and so the next set of elections in this country will be, I think, our last real chance to make the sea change-replacing oil and gas with sun and wind-that is our best hope for limiting warming.

    ↗The growing rumblebillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  10. 2 weeks earlier

  11. Our readingWindfall profits oil companies earn from wartime price spikes should be taxed.

    Their wordsIt would of course make great sense to tax these windfall profits, earned entirely on the back of dead Iranians and Americans, and everyone who's paying $4.50 a gallon at the pump.

    ↗Fun with numbersbillmckibben.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece