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1 week ago | 
billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben
Every once in a while our mad king hits on an accidentally poetic turn of phrase in one of his strangely punctuated missives.
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2 weeks ago | 
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2 weeks ago | 
billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben
That slightly out-of-focus picture shows the gritty, common-sense (and also transcendent) mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, with her 3-month old daughter Mira. A few minutes earlier, from the pulpit of Old North Church in Boston, she’d flipped a switch to light the green lantern you can see glowing in the steeple behind her.
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3 weeks ago | 
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben
Within 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. ..
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1 month ago | 
billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben
I think American history— which sadly includes slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration—means that we should be actively working to level the playing field between all Americans; as I said in my last book, I think there’s a strong argument for reparations. But you know who doesn’t think so?
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1 month ago | 
billmckibben.substack.com | Bill McKibben
It must have seemed like a huge week for the fossil fuel industry: as the Wall Street Journal put it yesterday (and you could sense the headline writer’s glee), “The fossil fuel industry gets its revenge on green activists.”The oil-and-gas industry is landing blow after blow against climate activists. The Trump administration has cranked out approvals of major projects to ship liquefied natural gas from the Gulf Coast and killed a host of climate-related initiatives.