energy 16
- Building only clean energy without reducing fossil energy will not effectively combat climate change.
- The United States is currently engaged in a battle against the transition to clean electricity.
Bill McKibben
Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989 and founded 350.org and Third Act.
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What Bill McKibben says most about
climate change 10
- Building only clean energy without reducing fossil energy will not effectively combat climate change.
- El Niño, likely exacerbated by climate change, will raise temperatures to levels no human has yet experienced.
America 5
- The United States is currently engaged in a battle against the transition to clean electricity.
- Elon Musk's dismantling of US humanitarian aid will cause millions of indirect deaths, making him one of the deadliest people in history.
solar 5
- A transition to wind and solar power could reduce the likelihood of war.
- Rapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.
data centers 4
- Opposition to AI data centers is driven partly by resistance to concentrated corporate power, not only by local environmental concerns.
- AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.
batteries 2
- Battery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.
- Rapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.
politics 2
- Politicians routinely underestimate how much the public cares about climate and environmental issues.
- Elon Musk's political backing of anti-EV, anti-clean-energy politics has undone far more good than his earlier advocacy for electric vehicles did.
war 2
- Windfall profits oil companies earn from wartime price spikes should be taxed.
- AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.