The Clean Energy Revolution
2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. 2025 will probably be even worse. Our planet is heating up. If present trends continue, a UN panel of scientists says it would be “disastrous for humankind.” Fossil fuels, including coal, are major contributors to global warming. So, what is the regime in Washington doing about it? It’s promoting fossil fuels with its mantra-like chants “Clean, Beautiful Coal” and “Drill Baby, Drill.” However, energy from the sun and wind is cheaper, more reliable, and better for the climate. And it’s growing faster than any energy source in history. Bill McKibben says, “Our liberation and our destruction are arriving at precisely the same time. Everything is going wrong, except this one big thing. Our species, at what feels like a dark moment, can take a giant leap into the light. Of the sun.”
Recorded at Unity of Boulder Church.
Speaker
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, is a leading environmental activist. He was one of the first to sound the alarm on climate change with his bestselling book The End of Nature. He is the author of The Age of Missing Information, Hope, Human and Wild, Deep Economy, Eaarth and The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and is the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award. He is the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate justice.
tim black –
good news ,there is hope thank you
David Mellon –
This is common sense, and cause for optimism, for the real world. I respect the previous comment re minimalism. In the long run we should get back to living in harmony with the planet and not taking more than we need. But let’s be realistic. This world is not reverting to minimilist ways any time soon. We need energy, and clean energy. And the fact that an abundance of it is at our doorstep is positive in many profound ways.
Stop extracting natural resources! –
Someone told me he may have been radical when he was young, but this is a waste of our airwaves. We need to cut down on everything! When is AR going to have a show on minimalism?
Anonymous –
Fireplaces within the City, and in my neighborhood,
Smoking within the City, and in my neighborhood,
Health facilities that let clients smoke toxic cigs in my neighborhood…
ALL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED AFFECT ME MORE.