Bill McKibben

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Contributing Writer at The New Yorker

Author, Educator, Environmentalist and founder of https://t.co/RD1mCHAneQ and https://t.co/58WgUpHwRO. Opinions all my own, and expressed at greater length at https://t.co/va0A985uVl

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Pope Francis and the Sun

3 days ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

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Pope Francis and the Sun

3 days ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

Let me begin with a little but of business, or perhaps anti-business. I am worried there may be people paying for a subscription to this newsletter who have forgotten that they subscribed in the first place. Thanks to the blunders of our president, I know money is tighter than ever. If you need to cancel your paid subscription, the instructions are here.
Will Trump Come for the Climate Movement on Earth Day? | Common Dreams

6 days ago | commondreams.org | Bill McKibben

It snowed Wednesday night in the Green Mountains, a typically beautiful late-season fluff-fest. Which meant I got to rise at 6 this morning and go for a ski before the spring sun turned it to slush—helpful, because I needed to clear my head a little. That’s because word came that night that, having dispensed with immigrants, law firms, humanitarian workers, and universities, the Trump administration was now turning its crosshairs on climate advocates.
A Chill Falls on the Climate Community

1 week ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

It snowed last night in the Green Mountains, a typically beautiful late-season fluff-fest. Which meant I got to rise at 6 this morning and go for a ski before the spring sun turned it to slush—helpful, because I needed to clear my head a little. That’s because word came last night that, having dispensed with immigrants, law firms, humanitarian workers, and universities, the Trump administration was now turning its crosshairs on climate advocates.
What Is An Emergency?

1 week ago | resilience.org | Bill McKibben

We are living through a week unlike any other in my lifetime; maybe the last truly comparable stretch was the bank closure that marked the start of the FDR administration, but then the president was there to tell Americans they had nothing to fear; now we have a president who can only insist we “take our medicine.” He is constantly hyping the fear, and he is doing it with the constant invocation of a word—”emergency”—designed to send us into ever-deeper panic.
Donald Trump’s Tariffs and the Price of Calm

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Bill McKibben

I happened to be in northern Europe—Finland and Estonia—during the days of President Donald Trump’s operatic tariff gambit, from his opening announcement that the days when other nations “raped” and “looted” America were over, thanks to his semi-random assignment of duties to economies around the world, right through to his humiliating climbdown on Wednesday and the attendant relief on Wall Street. Obviously, the drama will continue; drama—as well as cruelty—is the point.
What Is an Emergency?

1 week ago | rsn.org | Bill McKibben

Thinking as calmly as possible about where we find ourselves We are living through a week unlike any other in my lifetime; maybe the last truly comparable stretch was the bank closure that marked the start of the FDR administration, but then the president was there to tell Americans they had nothing to fear; now we have a president who can only insist we “take our medicine.” He is constantly hyping the fear, and he is doing it with the constant invocation of a word—”emergency”—designed to...
Trump Keeps Declaring Fake Emergencies That Make Our Real Emergency Worse | Common Dreams

2 weeks ago | commondreams.org | Bill McKibben

LATEST NEWSOPINIONCLIMATEECONOMY POLITICS RIGHTS & JUSTICEWAR & PEACE5#000000#FFFFFFThe "Drill, Baby, Drill" motif float shows a depiction of U.S. President Donald Trump with reference to the use of fossil fuels and the rejection of environmentally friendly energy production for the Rose Monday parade on March 3, 2025 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz-Mombach, Germany.
What Is An Emergency?

2 weeks ago | billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben

We are living through a week unlike any other in my lifetime; maybe the last truly comparable stretch was the bank closure that marked the start of the FDR administration, but then the president was there to tell Americans they had nothing to fear; now we have a president who can only insist we “take our medicine.” He is constantly hyping the fear, and he is doing it with the constant invocation of a word—”emergency”—designed to send us into ever-deeper panic.
Hands Off...the Future

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Bill McKibben

So many ways to wreck an economy, and Trump is trying them allWithin an hour of Trump’s imposition of new tariffs, analysts at J.P. Morgan put out this guidance for their investors: “We view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. ..