Thanks for the courageous outspokenness, Bill. Fossil fuel companies are the greatest obstacle to survival on this planet, and we need to start treating them accordingly.
"It measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile."
Thanks for this piece Bill in this sad, alarming summer. The polluters have long used their money to corrupt our politics, conspired to hide the nature and extent of the damage their actions have caused and shift political disasters of their making to their advantage. Who needs conspiracy theories when they're all in plain sight.
Let's support Brad Lander's courage (and the good fight continued by Gore, Markey, Sunrise, the climate movement). Let's show some sympathy for Bobby who did a lot of good work for a long time and has lost his way.
Fossil fuels are turning this planet into a soon-to-be uninhabitable horror. It is clear Blackrock, Larry Fink and his ilk are perfectly happy to retreat to their bunkers as the rest of us succumb to cooked internal organs. They are truly too blinded by their money and power to see that ultimately the planet will take them down, too. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/circumstantial-evidence
Hey Bill, thank you so much for all of the work you do for the human race. You have woken so many up to the state of the world and it's been a joy to read your work.
Do you have any recommended short reading for common people to reference in every day climate discussions with naysayers and others? I often wish I had a bullet point list of 10 material facts that expose the dire nature of our situation, or something similar, to help form concise arguments in discussions. If you don't have any recommended reading, do you think that is something you might possibly help with? I think it could be very effective for your readers to have in their tool belts relating to the climate crisis. Thank you!!
I've found Cranky uncle vs climate change by John Cook really helpful. It's a very simple cartoon book but every rubbish naysayer argument I've come across is quickly and easily dispatched.
I've always been a big admirer of Mr. McKibbon. But...like so many "liberals", in my eyes, he's disgraced himself by linking to this hit piece on RFK Jr. I've come to believe now that most of the so-called progressive community is a bunch of self righteous idiots. RFK Jr. is NOT an anti-semite. And any allusions to the contrary, propagated by people like McKibbon are disgusting. I'm done with you Bill!
Why? Are you afraid of what you might learn. As a lifelong progressive, I'm truly astounded at the fear many have of listening to people who they disagree with. It's so easy now to get both sides of an argument AND listen to the person themselves.
I'm pleasantly surprised that you had the grace to respond to me. Thank you. Would you be willing to do A LITTLE research on RFK Jr. and retract the suggestion that the article you linked to suggested he's an anti-semite? You and Naomi Klein, IMHO you are doing a grave disservice to the climate movement. I'm not the only one who's been turned away from the cause bc of the antagonistic attitude towards him. I'd suggest you watch the Congressional testimony on censorship the other day to get a taste of what he's being subjected to. I really hope you take the time. Thank you.
the piece was really not about rfk jr--it was about all the things he wasn't talking about when he was discussing Jews, Finns, Chinese and covid.
In fact I've known him for years, and I thought Naomi's piece was meticulously researched. But turning away from 'the cause' of climate concern because of your political affiliations seems like a bad idea in any event, especially given the temperature. Thanks, however, for having been involved before this, which is more than most people have been!
I haven't turned away from the cause. But I can tell you that many have. Even some progressive podcasters have become skeptics. I really think you do the cause a grave disservice by your stance. And Naomi Kleins piece on RFK Jr. was NOT meticulously researched. I could give you a litany of distortions. RFK's book on Fauci however, had over 2,000 footnotes. He is the one who is meticulous in his research. That's why I think he's the one with the most credibility. Thanks.
And what's your answer to your own question? Shouldn't you know the answer before you make assertions? I'll bet you don't know. I do. I checked at least 100 of them as I read the book and I could not find one that wasn't credible. But I suspect that any source that doesn't agree with your pre-conceived narrative, you'll dismiss out of hand. BC that's what people who don't want to consider another POV do. You'll never get to solutions that will help better the world if you refuse to look beyond your own nose. Sad.
But I do hold out hope that so called progressives like McKibbon and Klein will consider what RFK has to say. Maybe he's not correct ALL the time. But then, nobody is. Even Bill. He has changed his position on nuclear, hasn't he? So was HE a "nut job" as some here have called RFK bc they don't agree with him. Hmmmmm!
I watched that piece about RFK, with the dinner guests all looking at him sycophantically but also like he was talking crazy talk. It was obvious he knew it was being filmed. I didn't read the article as was behind a wall, but I know that no one becomes President without paying the ferryman whatever he, or she, might really believe. Anyway the good news is that RFK jr was talking crazy talk, Covid 19 can't attack anyone because it's a syndrome not a microbe but anyway a microbe has never ever been found- whether of not its' targeted to the ACE2 receptor of different races- how would that even work, there is no racial difference in Ace2 receptors-so it's genetics can't be manipulated, it only exists as a computer sequence. https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing
I am in an interesting position of being in the medical freedom moment, what is pejoratively called an 'anit-vaxxer', no one, Chinese, or not has died of 'covid'- they may have died of the measures, but there is no new disaese (symptoms fever and cough in one of the most heavily polluted cities in the world), lockdown in Italy in exchange for financial help, and record breaking profits for Pfizer for an unnecessary experimental mRNA jab, and have watched from the inside how the movement was infiltrated by people (probably paid) prompting anti-vegan messages and ridicule, promoting carnivore diets, posting anti- environmentalists jokes, people falling for the lie that 'healthy' cows are to be 'culled' because of alleged methane targets (which increases prices and demand for animal ag products) and protesting to protect farmers rights to keep indoor animals, telling me my compassion for animals was being controlled by the conspiracy to take away my right to eat them, and now are protesting in my high street anti ULEZ which is the London emission zone extension. Conservatives are now moving away from green politics as Labour have lost a bye election over ULEZ.
I was upset about all this at first. I still feel very alone, feeling that I'm the only one to see through both the covid lie as well as the oil and animal ag lies.
But no matter, I watch will interest at the end of our civilisation.
I'm not sure about your assertions here. I will do more research but I've read numerous articles about bio warfare with targeted microbes. If you're right and it's not possible, then govt's around the world are wasting a lot of money. Regarding your "opinion" about those with RFK during that talk, with all due respect, that's YOUR opinion of the attendees. You can not verify their interest or "sycophant" behavior. Anyway, it's irrelevant to the subject. Just a misdirection my friend.
I really like RFK who was calling out vaccine injuries and envrironmetal pollution way before me. But I don't believe anyone will be allowed to be elected as President who goes against big pharma.
Just because something is written down (this is just an overview, speculative piece) and that people are getting rich from research grants into it doesn't mean that it is feasible or has been demonstrated in real life. There are no papers demonstrating the effectiveness of genetically engineered, or other, viruses on humans nor animals.
And please tell me what the current D party has done for the environment lately? Look at how they handled the tragic train crash in East Palestine Ohio.
I agree, we are. But........what is the point of your disparagement? To discredit people who are on your side? RFK Jr. has been an environmental lawyer for over 30 years, helping the Hudson Riverkeepers to clean up the Hudson river and return it's fisheries to health. Disparaging him only drives good people who are on our side away from the cause. Don't you see that? I hope so. We're all fighting for the same cause.
McKibben was quoting RFK SENIOR. Please read this excerpt more carefully this time: " Not long before his assassination, Robert F. Kennedy gave a speech at the University of Kansas where he spoke about the real with as much eloquence as any American ever mustered. There was a man who could have been forgiven a conspiracy theory or two—after all, his brother had been killed just five years before." I don't know what "conspiracy theories" RFK the elder may have espoused, but the mention of that is likely what caused the confusion.
Barbara, I'm sorry but you are incorrect. The very first paragraph of the post links to an article (The Jews), in the Atlantic which is what I referred to. Please read my response more carefully next time. Thanks for your response though.
I was at a Jimmy Dore (formerly of the Young Turks, now a COVID realist, and still anti-war, pro public healthcare, etc.) comedy show here in SF last night and his only criticism of RFK Jr. was that he was too PRO Israel. Not exactly anti-semitic.
Exactly Doug. That's what I find so ironic here. As you said, he is very much pro Israel. As a Jew, I am bothered by his stance against the Palestinians. But I do think there's room for improvement once he's president. Israel is the third rail of politics these days. NO ONE can win any National office if they speak out, even a little on Israel. So I give him some slack here.
Focusing on RFK Jr. misses the point of the article. The guy is unhinged. I completely agree, the Dems are falling far short on climate and environment. I have been highly critical of Biden and his actions on more than one occasion.
The East Palestine Ohio crash is a horror, that seems to have disappeared from the news, typical. Both parties swim in oil money. Attacking a good guy like Bill is hardly useful. That's self-immolation.
Can you please tell me with specific references why RFK Junior is unhinged? Not opinion or hyperbole. Not ad hominem. I would hope you are above that. I honestly don’t think you can respond because I’ve done meticulous research, many hours, on RFK. Have you read his book the real Anthony Fauci? Over 2000 references.
Can I be frank? The activist community has done an excellent job explaining the science, but we have fallen short on marketing the planet saving better solutions. And people respond to marketing. That’s why the cigarette companies were able to sell Doctors touting the health benefits of cigarettes. So much for do no harm. And to quote Logan Roy in Succession, “I love you, but you are not serious people.” Let’s work with that. You know what’s sexy, renewable energy, you know what’s the most unsexy thing on earth…fossil fuels. Surely, we can sell this. When you give people all the stats, they are actually repelled by them. And frozen with fear. How about we get the best minds in advertising to come up with an ad campaign that’s clever and hip and (dare I say it) maybe even fun. And definitely sexy. Okay, gotta get back to my day job, selling solar energy. One roof at a time. And that we take serious.
We cannot have any kind of comprehensive discussion on climate change unless we bring geoengineering front and center. Weather manipulation has been going on since the 40's, and it has become increasingly responsible for the unstable climate. And how do we transition from fossil fuels unless there is a real alternative like free energy? The carbon footprint of wind turbines is mind boggling, and they have an incredibly short life span with no way to reuse any of the materials. Same with electric cars - the amount of rare minerals and strip mining needed to turn even one state in the US fully electric would devastate the planet. Fossil fuels are only part of the problem and when we ignore the rest of it, holistic solutions cannot be discussed. I would love to see fossil fuels ended and magnetic energy devices made the norm, but until we understand who is manipulating the weather and why, I don't see much change happening.
Maybe this global acceleration of adverse environment impacts on we humans will finally get some of us to change our voting habits, because decades of warnings from scientists and climate activists certainly haven’t convinced the critical mass.
To your point: "what does stand-up leadership look like?" Thanks for amplifying what Brad Lander is up to, Bill. He is surely an example of how more political (and, I'd argue, corporate) leaders can use their platforms to get louder. We seem to finally be at a point where so many folks who've remained muted, maybe for *professional* reasons (?), have hit the point where their personal values force them to speak UP. In my work I talk about this as climate influence. Imagine if Brad inspired even a handful more of his peers to do similar videos or to get louder on social platforms. Their leadership inspires their peers, and that starts to shift the social norm /expectations of what a REAL leader in today's climate crisis looks and sounds like. See Mayor Eric Adams influence on plant-based food shift. See former Milwaukie mayor/now Oregon House Rep, Mark Gamba (who I interviewed for Living Change podcast/great episode), who has always made a point to be seen riding a bike for transportation in his political career. Not only does this impact constituents, it gets their peers to think - hmmm... I could maybe add my climate-acting personal values and voice to this movement now.
PLEASE, Bill McKibben: start weaving into your writing the oil/chemical usage and impacts that are rampant in our agriculture. Yes, we need to stop burning things. We also need to stop ruining our land and our health and our climate through industrial agriculture!
Hi Bill, my algorithm just took me to your interview from yesterday on the Majority report, very interesting.
I think a huge amount of resistance is coming from those, rightly, skeptical about the lockdowns/covid/vaccines mandate/coercion and the movement (traditionally on the right) that came out of the 'pandemic' against government corruption and regulation but which has now become Neil Oliver on GBnews saying that Greece being on fire is being used to manipulate us and that we should turn our backs on it.
The environmental movement (traditionally on the left) and climate scientists continue to call anti vaxxers conspiracy theorists and insist that we are disregarding facts and ignoring the science because we oppose regulation.
This is not true!
I have written to many including John Cook who even has videos about debunking covid skeptics but presents no actual evidence to back himself up.
I would love a climate activist to look into this really bad stuff (of people being killed by forced ventilation, loneliness, remdevier and midazolam, 30 million people starving to death during the lockdowns, jabs never tested against transmission and cronyism) happening in plain view, and see where we're coming from. It could perhaps help to unite the two?
1. how are solar panels produced? and is green energy a reliable replacement for crude? considering that most green energy depend on the weather.
2. Tesla promised in 2021 to switch from nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cathodes in batteries for their standard range vehicles to Lithium but there is no evidence they actually did considering the bottle neck involved in processing lithium.
3.How about the issue with wait time in charging car batteries?
Hi Bill, am only a recent reader but extremely appreciative of the work you have been doing. There has been an "event" of which the relevance and implications are yet to be fully appreciated and perhaps it is something we can co-write on together. I believe that a CEO of one of the most relevant multinationals was recently toppled for being 'woke' and I think we can do a good job of highlighting why that is so important to human progress towards social cohesion and combatting the climate crisis. Message me here or through LinkedIn if you want to discuss.
Thanks for the courageous outspokenness, Bill. Fossil fuel companies are the greatest obstacle to survival on this planet, and we need to start treating them accordingly.
"It measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile."
Thanks for this piece Bill in this sad, alarming summer. The polluters have long used their money to corrupt our politics, conspired to hide the nature and extent of the damage their actions have caused and shift political disasters of their making to their advantage. Who needs conspiracy theories when they're all in plain sight.
Let's support Brad Lander's courage (and the good fight continued by Gore, Markey, Sunrise, the climate movement). Let's show some sympathy for Bobby who did a lot of good work for a long time and has lost his way.
Agree on all counts
Fossil fuels are turning this planet into a soon-to-be uninhabitable horror. It is clear Blackrock, Larry Fink and his ilk are perfectly happy to retreat to their bunkers as the rest of us succumb to cooked internal organs. They are truly too blinded by their money and power to see that ultimately the planet will take them down, too. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/circumstantial-evidence
Hey Bill, thank you so much for all of the work you do for the human race. You have woken so many up to the state of the world and it's been a joy to read your work.
Do you have any recommended short reading for common people to reference in every day climate discussions with naysayers and others? I often wish I had a bullet point list of 10 material facts that expose the dire nature of our situation, or something similar, to help form concise arguments in discussions. If you don't have any recommended reading, do you think that is something you might possibly help with? I think it could be very effective for your readers to have in their tool belts relating to the climate crisis. Thank you!!
it's a good point and i will go to work on it
I've found Cranky uncle vs climate change by John Cook really helpful. It's a very simple cartoon book but every rubbish naysayer argument I've come across is quickly and easily dispatched.
On the solution side of things Drawdown and Regeneration are excellent resources as well as being beautiful books.
I've always been a big admirer of Mr. McKibbon. But...like so many "liberals", in my eyes, he's disgraced himself by linking to this hit piece on RFK Jr. I've come to believe now that most of the so-called progressive community is a bunch of self righteous idiots. RFK Jr. is NOT an anti-semite. And any allusions to the contrary, propagated by people like McKibbon are disgusting. I'm done with you Bill!
fair enough.
Don't waste your time, Bill.
Why? Are you afraid of what you might learn. As a lifelong progressive, I'm truly astounded at the fear many have of listening to people who they disagree with. It's so easy now to get both sides of an argument AND listen to the person themselves.
I'm pleasantly surprised that you had the grace to respond to me. Thank you. Would you be willing to do A LITTLE research on RFK Jr. and retract the suggestion that the article you linked to suggested he's an anti-semite? You and Naomi Klein, IMHO you are doing a grave disservice to the climate movement. I'm not the only one who's been turned away from the cause bc of the antagonistic attitude towards him. I'd suggest you watch the Congressional testimony on censorship the other day to get a taste of what he's being subjected to. I really hope you take the time. Thank you.
the piece was really not about rfk jr--it was about all the things he wasn't talking about when he was discussing Jews, Finns, Chinese and covid.
In fact I've known him for years, and I thought Naomi's piece was meticulously researched. But turning away from 'the cause' of climate concern because of your political affiliations seems like a bad idea in any event, especially given the temperature. Thanks, however, for having been involved before this, which is more than most people have been!
I haven't turned away from the cause. But I can tell you that many have. Even some progressive podcasters have become skeptics. I really think you do the cause a grave disservice by your stance. And Naomi Kleins piece on RFK Jr. was NOT meticulously researched. I could give you a litany of distortions. RFK's book on Fauci however, had over 2,000 footnotes. He is the one who is meticulous in his research. That's why I think he's the one with the most credibility. Thanks.
It is not the number of footnotes that matters - it is whether the footnotes are credible or not.
And what's your answer to your own question? Shouldn't you know the answer before you make assertions? I'll bet you don't know. I do. I checked at least 100 of them as I read the book and I could not find one that wasn't credible. But I suspect that any source that doesn't agree with your pre-conceived narrative, you'll dismiss out of hand. BC that's what people who don't want to consider another POV do. You'll never get to solutions that will help better the world if you refuse to look beyond your own nose. Sad.
But I do hold out hope that so called progressives like McKibbon and Klein will consider what RFK has to say. Maybe he's not correct ALL the time. But then, nobody is. Even Bill. He has changed his position on nuclear, hasn't he? So was HE a "nut job" as some here have called RFK bc they don't agree with him. Hmmmmm!
I watched that piece about RFK, with the dinner guests all looking at him sycophantically but also like he was talking crazy talk. It was obvious he knew it was being filmed. I didn't read the article as was behind a wall, but I know that no one becomes President without paying the ferryman whatever he, or she, might really believe. Anyway the good news is that RFK jr was talking crazy talk, Covid 19 can't attack anyone because it's a syndrome not a microbe but anyway a microbe has never ever been found- whether of not its' targeted to the ACE2 receptor of different races- how would that even work, there is no racial difference in Ace2 receptors-so it's genetics can't be manipulated, it only exists as a computer sequence. https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing
I am in an interesting position of being in the medical freedom moment, what is pejoratively called an 'anit-vaxxer', no one, Chinese, or not has died of 'covid'- they may have died of the measures, but there is no new disaese (symptoms fever and cough in one of the most heavily polluted cities in the world), lockdown in Italy in exchange for financial help, and record breaking profits for Pfizer for an unnecessary experimental mRNA jab, and have watched from the inside how the movement was infiltrated by people (probably paid) prompting anti-vegan messages and ridicule, promoting carnivore diets, posting anti- environmentalists jokes, people falling for the lie that 'healthy' cows are to be 'culled' because of alleged methane targets (which increases prices and demand for animal ag products) and protesting to protect farmers rights to keep indoor animals, telling me my compassion for animals was being controlled by the conspiracy to take away my right to eat them, and now are protesting in my high street anti ULEZ which is the London emission zone extension. Conservatives are now moving away from green politics as Labour have lost a bye election over ULEZ.
I was upset about all this at first. I still feel very alone, feeling that I'm the only one to see through both the covid lie as well as the oil and animal ag lies.
But no matter, I watch will interest at the end of our civilisation.
Jo
I'm not sure about your assertions here. I will do more research but I've read numerous articles about bio warfare with targeted microbes. If you're right and it's not possible, then govt's around the world are wasting a lot of money. Regarding your "opinion" about those with RFK during that talk, with all due respect, that's YOUR opinion of the attendees. You can not verify their interest or "sycophant" behavior. Anyway, it's irrelevant to the subject. Just a misdirection my friend.
Brief research on targeted bio weapons with viruses: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2013/03/10/genetically-engineered-bioweapons-a-new-breed-of-weapons-for-modern-warfare/
For anyone interested in more on what RFK has to say about this issue of viruses and vaccines here is a comprehensive run down https://christinemasseyfois.substack.com/p/if-rfk-jr-really-believes-in-telling?nthPub=2001
I really like RFK who was calling out vaccine injuries and envrironmetal pollution way before me. But I don't believe anyone will be allowed to be elected as President who goes against big pharma.
🙏🏽
Just because something is written down (this is just an overview, speculative piece) and that people are getting rich from research grants into it doesn't mean that it is feasible or has been demonstrated in real life. There are no papers demonstrating the effectiveness of genetically engineered, or other, viruses on humans nor animals.
Talk about missing the point. RFK Jr. is a nut bag, not fit for public office. And the point is we are frying an inhabitable planet.
And please tell me what the current D party has done for the environment lately? Look at how they handled the tragic train crash in East Palestine Ohio.
I agree, we are. But........what is the point of your disparagement? To discredit people who are on your side? RFK Jr. has been an environmental lawyer for over 30 years, helping the Hudson Riverkeepers to clean up the Hudson river and return it's fisheries to health. Disparaging him only drives good people who are on our side away from the cause. Don't you see that? I hope so. We're all fighting for the same cause.
McKibben was quoting RFK SENIOR. Please read this excerpt more carefully this time: " Not long before his assassination, Robert F. Kennedy gave a speech at the University of Kansas where he spoke about the real with as much eloquence as any American ever mustered. There was a man who could have been forgiven a conspiracy theory or two—after all, his brother had been killed just five years before." I don't know what "conspiracy theories" RFK the elder may have espoused, but the mention of that is likely what caused the confusion.
Barbara, I'm sorry but you are incorrect. The very first paragraph of the post links to an article (The Jews), in the Atlantic which is what I referred to. Please read my response more carefully next time. Thanks for your response though.
Ah. Apologies. I'd forgotten that first line, and hadn't opened the link, so (obviously) I was thinking of the striking quote from RFK the elder.
I was at a Jimmy Dore (formerly of the Young Turks, now a COVID realist, and still anti-war, pro public healthcare, etc.) comedy show here in SF last night and his only criticism of RFK Jr. was that he was too PRO Israel. Not exactly anti-semitic.
Exactly Doug. That's what I find so ironic here. As you said, he is very much pro Israel. As a Jew, I am bothered by his stance against the Palestinians. But I do think there's room for improvement once he's president. Israel is the third rail of politics these days. NO ONE can win any National office if they speak out, even a little on Israel. So I give him some slack here.
Focusing on RFK Jr. misses the point of the article. The guy is unhinged. I completely agree, the Dems are falling far short on climate and environment. I have been highly critical of Biden and his actions on more than one occasion.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/massive-alaska-willow-drilling-project
The East Palestine Ohio crash is a horror, that seems to have disappeared from the news, typical. Both parties swim in oil money. Attacking a good guy like Bill is hardly useful. That's self-immolation.
Can you please tell me with specific references why RFK Junior is unhinged? Not opinion or hyperbole. Not ad hominem. I would hope you are above that. I honestly don’t think you can respond because I’ve done meticulous research, many hours, on RFK. Have you read his book the real Anthony Fauci? Over 2000 references.
Can I be frank? The activist community has done an excellent job explaining the science, but we have fallen short on marketing the planet saving better solutions. And people respond to marketing. That’s why the cigarette companies were able to sell Doctors touting the health benefits of cigarettes. So much for do no harm. And to quote Logan Roy in Succession, “I love you, but you are not serious people.” Let’s work with that. You know what’s sexy, renewable energy, you know what’s the most unsexy thing on earth…fossil fuels. Surely, we can sell this. When you give people all the stats, they are actually repelled by them. And frozen with fear. How about we get the best minds in advertising to come up with an ad campaign that’s clever and hip and (dare I say it) maybe even fun. And definitely sexy. Okay, gotta get back to my day job, selling solar energy. One roof at a time. And that we take serious.
"Lander can move that business and it will hurt Blackrock; and his words will at least be heard in the din of Wall Street."
"Can move" but will they? As he said himself, actions speak louder than words. I hope so as that will, as you say, be heard!
We cannot have any kind of comprehensive discussion on climate change unless we bring geoengineering front and center. Weather manipulation has been going on since the 40's, and it has become increasingly responsible for the unstable climate. And how do we transition from fossil fuels unless there is a real alternative like free energy? The carbon footprint of wind turbines is mind boggling, and they have an incredibly short life span with no way to reuse any of the materials. Same with electric cars - the amount of rare minerals and strip mining needed to turn even one state in the US fully electric would devastate the planet. Fossil fuels are only part of the problem and when we ignore the rest of it, holistic solutions cannot be discussed. I would love to see fossil fuels ended and magnetic energy devices made the norm, but until we understand who is manipulating the weather and why, I don't see much change happening.
As Wolfgang Pauli would say, "Not even wrong".
Maybe this global acceleration of adverse environment impacts on we humans will finally get some of us to change our voting habits, because decades of warnings from scientists and climate activists certainly haven’t convinced the critical mass.
To your point: "what does stand-up leadership look like?" Thanks for amplifying what Brad Lander is up to, Bill. He is surely an example of how more political (and, I'd argue, corporate) leaders can use their platforms to get louder. We seem to finally be at a point where so many folks who've remained muted, maybe for *professional* reasons (?), have hit the point where their personal values force them to speak UP. In my work I talk about this as climate influence. Imagine if Brad inspired even a handful more of his peers to do similar videos or to get louder on social platforms. Their leadership inspires their peers, and that starts to shift the social norm /expectations of what a REAL leader in today's climate crisis looks and sounds like. See Mayor Eric Adams influence on plant-based food shift. See former Milwaukie mayor/now Oregon House Rep, Mark Gamba (who I interviewed for Living Change podcast/great episode), who has always made a point to be seen riding a bike for transportation in his political career. Not only does this impact constituents, it gets their peers to think - hmmm... I could maybe add my climate-acting personal values and voice to this movement now.
PLEASE, Bill McKibben: start weaving into your writing the oil/chemical usage and impacts that are rampant in our agriculture. Yes, we need to stop burning things. We also need to stop ruining our land and our health and our climate through industrial agriculture!
four words- "planet of the humans"
Hi Bill, my algorithm just took me to your interview from yesterday on the Majority report, very interesting.
I think a huge amount of resistance is coming from those, rightly, skeptical about the lockdowns/covid/vaccines mandate/coercion and the movement (traditionally on the right) that came out of the 'pandemic' against government corruption and regulation but which has now become Neil Oliver on GBnews saying that Greece being on fire is being used to manipulate us and that we should turn our backs on it.
The environmental movement (traditionally on the left) and climate scientists continue to call anti vaxxers conspiracy theorists and insist that we are disregarding facts and ignoring the science because we oppose regulation.
This is not true!
I have written to many including John Cook who even has videos about debunking covid skeptics but presents no actual evidence to back himself up.
I would love a climate activist to look into this really bad stuff (of people being killed by forced ventilation, loneliness, remdevier and midazolam, 30 million people starving to death during the lockdowns, jabs never tested against transmission and cronyism) happening in plain view, and see where we're coming from. It could perhaps help to unite the two?
Jo
I have a few questions
1. how are solar panels produced? and is green energy a reliable replacement for crude? considering that most green energy depend on the weather.
2. Tesla promised in 2021 to switch from nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cathodes in batteries for their standard range vehicles to Lithium but there is no evidence they actually did considering the bottle neck involved in processing lithium.
3.How about the issue with wait time in charging car batteries?
Hi Bill, am only a recent reader but extremely appreciative of the work you have been doing. There has been an "event" of which the relevance and implications are yet to be fully appreciated and perhaps it is something we can co-write on together. I believe that a CEO of one of the most relevant multinationals was recently toppled for being 'woke' and I think we can do a good job of highlighting why that is so important to human progress towards social cohesion and combatting the climate crisis. Message me here or through LinkedIn if you want to discuss.