Archive - The Crucial Years

The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

15 hrs ago • Bill McKibben

In anger, in hope, in whatever gets you out the door on Saturday!

Mar 25 • Bill McKibben

Now comes the heat

Add it to the war, and maybe we have a teachable moment

Mar 13 • Bill McKibben

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran

And over a shamed America

Mar 9 • Bill McKibben

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Mar 6 • Bill McKibben

February 2026

Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet

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

Feb 28 • Bill McKibben

My native intelligence considers AI data centers

Yes, they're fast, and yes it's time to slow the heck down

Feb 21 • Bill McKibben

An El Niño is brewing

And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

Feb 16 • Bill McKibben

Notes on winter

When the world turns whimsical

Feb 8 • Bill McKibben

Thinking about lying

Climate denial taught our leaders shamelessness

Feb 2 • Bill McKibben

January 2026

Time for some courage in the climate fight too

Big business, and its political enablers, have turned tail. They need to take a page from the resistance

Jan 27 • Bill McKibben

We interrupt the madness for a note from the rational world

And an encouraging one, at that!

Jan 22 • Bill McKibben

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