I'm so glad to hear this hopeful news about the Pres of the WB. I have emailed Biden and asked him to fire Malpass but I didn't get a response. So many thanks to Ed Markey, I need the help. Ha!
Praying for Alaa. Thank you for raising the profile of his case. And thank you so very much for this optimistic column that shows us how, with action and organizing, we can change the future.
Maybe Alaa should decide now to live -- he's broken thru to world audience now -- I'd never heard of him till now and I treasure people with his sort of courage and talent ALIVE (altho I'll assume there's plenty I'll disagree with him on, as is typical of us confrontative activist types).
Yes! Finally, let’s get the World Bank to stop subsidizing climate chaos while cashing in on carbon markets! Great to see Al Gore taking on the World Bank in his speech a few days ago.
Thank you Sent Markey and Bill McKibben for your hard work on climate. Replacing Malpass at the world bank would give the world a chance to prevent climate disaster. 💪👍💪👍
What a delicious [ice cream] scoop, Bill! Your dispatches from Egypt are humbling for us Americans - reminders of the truth of global interdependence and the embers of hope that are aglow in this moment.
It's a bit disappointing to me that Mckibben and Markey here appear to equate the Green New Deal with what critical macro-finance people would call the "de-risking state," which seeks transparency and incentives to "crowd in" private capital, but does not seek to steer the proactive (and if need be coercive) allocation of credit with a real industrial policy, which to me is what any thing bearing in New Deal sticker has to be.
Many of us older Mass voters were also pulling for Markey in the last election. He has lots of experience, and gravitas, while that Kennedy kid was running on his name and nothing else. I knew Markey would be important for dealing with climate change. Thanks Bill!
Thanks -- great report -- and as a Massachusetts dweller, supporter of Markey, and hypnotized by all things Kennedy, I'll look forward to any light you can shed on the "yet another handsome young Kennedy" needlessly attacking Markey when the youngster could simply go for the Presidency and have a real shot at it.
From another Mass resident: That youngster is never going to be President, and he wouldn't have asked the Pres to fire Malpass if he'd been Senator. He doesn't have the gravitas.
Look at photos of JFK, and of RFK, and then look at a photo of "yet another handsome young Kennedy." There is a liveliness, a charisma, in the faces of the former two that is entirely lacking in the latter. Or google "JFK funny press conferences". JFK had a wonderful sense of humor that I suspect is entirely lacking in this grandson of RFK.
And I highly recommend Fredrik Logevall's very recent bio, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956. Logevall goes deeper than any previous biographer. Also, Collier and Horowitz's The Kennedys, which goes into Joseph P. Kennedy's grandchildren, who mostly did not do so well, most of them being children of RFK.
I'm so glad to hear this hopeful news about the Pres of the WB. I have emailed Biden and asked him to fire Malpass but I didn't get a response. So many thanks to Ed Markey, I need the help. Ha!
Thank you, Mr. McKibben
Yessss. Great scoop! And thanks for supporting Alaa. You do such good work with a lot of heart and stamina.
We must replace this obstacle to our future survival!
Praying for Alaa. Thank you for raising the profile of his case. And thank you so very much for this optimistic column that shows us how, with action and organizing, we can change the future.
Maybe Alaa should decide now to live -- he's broken thru to world audience now -- I'd never heard of him till now and I treasure people with his sort of courage and talent ALIVE (altho I'll assume there's plenty I'll disagree with him on, as is typical of us confrontative activist types).
Go Markey! And thanks for all you do.
Markey is pretty remarkable on climate stuff
Yes! Finally, let’s get the World Bank to stop subsidizing climate chaos while cashing in on carbon markets! Great to see Al Gore taking on the World Bank in his speech a few days ago.
Thank you Sent Markey and Bill McKibben for your hard work on climate. Replacing Malpass at the world bank would give the world a chance to prevent climate disaster. 💪👍💪👍
What a delicious [ice cream] scoop, Bill! Your dispatches from Egypt are humbling for us Americans - reminders of the truth of global interdependence and the embers of hope that are aglow in this moment.
It is remarkable to be in a hall with people from basically everywhere...
thank you for the reporting about Ed Markey
It's a bit disappointing to me that Mckibben and Markey here appear to equate the Green New Deal with what critical macro-finance people would call the "de-risking state," which seeks transparency and incentives to "crowd in" private capital, but does not seek to steer the proactive (and if need be coercive) allocation of credit with a real industrial policy, which to me is what any thing bearing in New Deal sticker has to be.
Thanks so much to both of you for doing the Long, Hard Work! And of course have to note the irony of seeing you guys in front of a WWF banner...
I'm a Canadian who is completely dedicated to all forms of climate changer remediation.......love these two guys- keep it up!
Great pic Bill ! We’re down to the wire and we’ll find out what humans are really made of. Thanks for all your hard work,
It’s totally appreciated.
Many of us older Mass voters were also pulling for Markey in the last election. He has lots of experience, and gravitas, while that Kennedy kid was running on his name and nothing else. I knew Markey would be important for dealing with climate change. Thanks Bill!
That was one of the most remarkable races I ever watched!
Thanks -- great report -- and as a Massachusetts dweller, supporter of Markey, and hypnotized by all things Kennedy, I'll look forward to any light you can shed on the "yet another handsome young Kennedy" needlessly attacking Markey when the youngster could simply go for the Presidency and have a real shot at it.
From another Mass resident: That youngster is never going to be President, and he wouldn't have asked the Pres to fire Malpass if he'd been Senator. He doesn't have the gravitas.
Look at photos of JFK, and of RFK, and then look at a photo of "yet another handsome young Kennedy." There is a liveliness, a charisma, in the faces of the former two that is entirely lacking in the latter. Or google "JFK funny press conferences". JFK had a wonderful sense of humor that I suspect is entirely lacking in this grandson of RFK.
And I highly recommend Fredrik Logevall's very recent bio, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956. Logevall goes deeper than any previous biographer. Also, Collier and Horowitz's The Kennedys, which goes into Joseph P. Kennedy's grandchildren, who mostly did not do so well, most of them being children of RFK.
There is a joy in JFK and RFK that I saw no signs of in the Kennedy who tried to unseat Markey.