Bill McKibben

Please read @billmckibben.bsky.social on the toxic oil clouds the Iran war is now generating:

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...

Noting that the sun seems to have figured it out!

This is a stunningly good new book and I can't wait to talk with Rebecca about it!

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran And over a shamed America

America and Israel are in essence waging chemical war in Iran, filling the air above its metropolis with toxic smoke after lighting its oil storage depots on fire.
How is anyone supposed to "rise up" when they can't breathe?
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Graphic which reads 'Price of sunlight +0%, Price of oil +50%'

Reminder: The cost of the sun and wind will never increase because of conflict. While oil prices rise by almost 50% in the U.S. - sunlight remains free and abundant, forever. ☀️

This is what ecocide looks like.

Seems like a lot of blood shed to transition from Ayatollah Khamenei to... Ayatollah Khamenei

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."

—Bill McKibben

This is what ecocide looks like.

would also much appreciate some more reporting somewhere about the apparently unarmed Iranian naval vessel torpedoed off Sri Lanka?

a public service highlighting an issue that is confusing to many!

Rachel Maddow called Bill a genius of exposition. Which rings true to me. Who else finds such clear, concise, vivid ways to sum up where we are and where we could and should be?

Actually, an EV replaces oil directly and is probably the biggest threat it faces
But also good to push on natgas coal etc

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

This one is easy to answer. Who says the nicest things about big don?

what are taxpayers for?

I know a rock or two they could turn over…

there was a time when the Baptists would have been counted as mainline Protestants too, but their southern branch anyway became one of the mainsprings of far rightwing Christianity.

yes, but Presbyterian--proud example of old-school mainline Protestantism

Rigging the Vote: Trump’s Threats to Elections Marc Elias joins Sue Halpern for a wide-ranging discussion of voting rights, campaign financing, and threats to election integrity.

Sue Halpern (full disclosure my beautiful and sagacious wife) talks with @marcelias.bsky.social live tomorrow on the somewhat important topic of how to make sure we have an election later this year
www.eventbrite.com/e/rigging-th...

The fervor with which she supports the thing she previously shut down is impressive!

Happily that’s the season when wind is most efficient

Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

According to The Economist, Cuba’s imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34 last year, faster than anywhere else in the world

They're trying to prepare for the inevitable next attack from Trump
billmckibben.substack.com/p/surviving-...

Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet

Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

@billmckibben.bsky.social

also if you believe in, like, not dying

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."--Thomas Jefferson

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."--Thomas Jefferson

I bet this will be great! @emorwee is, age aside, a true veteran of these wars!

absolutely!