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Bill McKibben

What Bill McKibben thinks about solar

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

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  1. Our readingRapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.

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    Their wordsthere is actually one thing we do know how to do, and that is build out lots of cheap solar, wind, and batteries.

    ↗Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  2. 8 days earlier

  3. 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.

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    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

  4. 2 weeks earlier

  5. Our readingBattery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.

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    Their wordsBatteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half

    ↗Fun with numbersbillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  7. Our readingThe 'intermittent power' criticism long aimed at solar and wind now applies more truly to other energy sources, including nuclear and natural gas.

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    Their wordsthat charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources

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