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The Crucial Years

Bill McKibben
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Reality intrudes

In our political life, reality hardly matters any more. Earlier today the president of the United States, in a fit of pique, proposed renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” He hides in a food cart and sends journalists out as decoys to be ki...

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A year in, the data center/AI battle starts to clarify

One of the year’s most important political battles—the one against ICE deportations in Minneapolis this past winter—took place in a geographically confined area filled with people with cellphones who could record its brutal but fairly simpl...

11 days ago
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Fun with numbers

Last time I marked the fifth anniversary of this newsletter with a remarkably heavy burst of analysis—a ‘where do we stand’ summary that let me speak at the highest possible level about our past, present, and future. So of course I’m worn o...

19 days ago
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Take Five

This newsletter turns five years old this month, which means that more than 300 times I’ve tried to assemble the latest news from the world of climate and energy and figure out what it means. I started it in 2021, intending to run through t...

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High Heat, High Drama

French beachgoers watching the giant Gironde wildfire last week

The climate fight moves in stages. A decade ago, we got to the pledge stage. First, governments signed the Paris accords, and then, under pressure from Greta Thunberg’s moveme...

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