What Bill McKibben thinks about physics

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

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1. 30 Aug 2026

   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.

   solarenergyAmericaclimate 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.

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