What if we all started calling it methane gas. ‘Natural gas” gives a false sense of it being a positive thing. Coal is natural too but we don’t call it natural coal.
Not quite the same. Methane is more accurate and something everyone will accept as harmful. Fossil has wider meanings so less clear. Fracking is a method and implies that it’s just the method of extraction that is the issue.
A great political asset that the anti-nuclear movement had was a roster of retired military brass, like Admirals Gene La Rocque and Eugene Carroll. As public voices, they brought credibility and gravitas to the campaign. The climate crisis needs to be framed as a national security concern along with all its other dangers.
Bill - unfortunately you've been reading the wrong news. It is true that Europe almost has the LNG needed to maketi through the winter -- but they didn't get it cheaply - and they didn't get it from their own internal sources -- they had to import it - from the US and elsewhere; so when you make statements in the future - how about telling all of it - instead of what you just want to spin.
You a good man Bill - and you have been a beacon for us, helping to bring the climate situation to all of us, so speaking only for myself -- I would appreciate getting all of the information.
Best chance for permit reform in the next 4 years died today due to some bad advice from 350 and other environmental groups. Citizens' Climate Lobby fought to the end to pass it, but Big Green helped kill it
Thank you Bill for making this newsletter free. I am a widow and retired 77 yr old lawyer and teacher and a high IQ person, but live in poverty ($2650 a month). Your newsletter allows me to keep my intellectual life alive. Recently was passed to become a LYFT Driver in New Mexico.(one of the few employers other than WallMart that does not age discriminate). They will rent me an EV car for $100 less a week than a gas car. Probably Biden bill stimulus,right?
Jennifer Granholm is an unqualified political hack.
And you’re a deranged zealot. CHINA is the country taking climate change seriously? How many more megawatts of coal power plants did they install than the rest of the world combined last year?
Go fuck yourself. Not because you’re wrong and misguided(which is fine), but because you’re a lying piece of shit(which is bad).
Malaysia and Vietnam should be installing solar and windmills instead of buying and having imported "natural gas " from the United States.
Great to see coverage. I've been amazed and shocked by how Biden and priors have pushed "natural gas" use and export.
Not to mention Biden almost certainly ordering that the Nordstrom 1 and 2 pipelines be blown up ....which coincidentally gives more market opportunities for us exports....which I've read Rahm Emmanuel is personally pushing like i think Barack Obama once bragged that he was Boeing's top salesman.
Of course I wonder how Biden and Congress and CBS and the Pentagon and NATO would respond if Russia blew up underwater pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico?
So Environmentalist Bill McKibben is on Substack .... one more thing to read!
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Just FYI....I recently unilaterally declared my No Organization Organization called The International Artist's Campaign To Save The Monarch Butterflies Thru Art Fragrant Flowers Milkweed And Your Idea Here. No Sign Up. No Fees. No Emails.
Hi Bill - Great piece, as always. But I think we can make more of this if we call it what it is--a government study. Fossil fuel interests and the MAGAs will be quick to try to tar it as a Democrat study. But it was commissioned by the DOE. The Democratic Party had nothing to do with it. Going forward, shall we call it what it is--a landmark government study?
I am happy to support your work, as a paid subscriber, but given recent information about the direction Substack is heading (see link), I am not happy to support the Substack platform.
I’ve been following your lead since 2006, The End of Nature. My wife and I attended the 7 Stages in Little Five Points Atlanta rally when you were promoting Hillary Clinton in 2016. I’ve been a paying member of your Substack blog for years.
And through all that time you have been a Democratic Party enabler. You supported that party for decades as the only ‘rational’ option for progressive voters. And what has that achieved? Trump in 2016 and 2024.
I wasted my vote in both elections by following your lead. Your leadership and the leadership of the DNC and the Democratic party has failed the country. One would think that you and the party would clean house to get rid of the inept leaders at the top who consistently assume that they are always the smartest people in the room. How idiotic and disappointing!
Your time has passed. The time of the leadership of the Clintonites is done. Maybe the Democratic party is done.
Please do the honorable thing and just retire along with all of your Democrat egg heads. You have nearly destroyed the party. Don’t try to hang on until you complete the job…please. Because if you do it could completely destroy what’s left of our so called democracy.
Get our of the way and allow the real progressives in the party to assert a completely reformed set of ideals.
Fair enough. I obviously supported My forehand neighbor Bernie in 2016 (and even served as one of his five delegates to the platform writing committee) but when he lost I agreed with him that Hilary was far superior to Trump and so as you say worked hard for her. Ditto 2020–and I’d argue that Bernie’s good judgment in backing Biden was rewarded with the IRA. And I supported Kamala this time. I’d stand by all those choices. But I look forward to you and your fellow ‘real progressives’ finding and nominating the next candidate. In the meantime I’ll keep working on all the things that aren’t electoral politics, which is where most of my effort has always gone
To Elaine -- I'm on your side - because there is an available means of installing clean / very inexpensive / electricity "where needed" / "as much as is needed at any 'stationary' or 'movable' site" / "for as long as is needed".
But it unfortunately doesn't seem to fit into to Bill's area of interest - as he has had the information about the power supply for months.
This is Bill's substack - and he has the complete right to not say "boo" about it -- but I then feel that he has given me the right to comment on his topics - - unless he chooses to "expel me" for speaking truth.
"Honesty is a lot better than its opposite." Amen to that! There is a surprising amount of hope here, and more to keep an eye out for. Thanks for making it visible. Happy Advent.
What if we all started calling it methane gas. ‘Natural gas” gives a false sense of it being a positive thing. Coal is natural too but we don’t call it natural coal.
or fossil gas, or fracked gas. all good!
Not quite the same. Methane is more accurate and something everyone will accept as harmful. Fossil has wider meanings so less clear. Fracking is a method and implies that it’s just the method of extraction that is the issue.
A great political asset that the anti-nuclear movement had was a roster of retired military brass, like Admirals Gene La Rocque and Eugene Carroll. As public voices, they brought credibility and gravitas to the campaign. The climate crisis needs to be framed as a national security concern along with all its other dangers.
Yikes. The anti-science/anti-nuclear movement is something to emulate? It’s scary to see how deranged the lot of people like you are.
I think losers who “roll coal” in their trucks are some of the most obnoxious people imaginable - but you would truly deserve it.
Bill - unfortunately you've been reading the wrong news. It is true that Europe almost has the LNG needed to maketi through the winter -- but they didn't get it cheaply - and they didn't get it from their own internal sources -- they had to import it - from the US and elsewhere; so when you make statements in the future - how about telling all of it - instead of what you just want to spin.
You a good man Bill - and you have been a beacon for us, helping to bring the climate situation to all of us, so speaking only for myself -- I would appreciate getting all of the information.
Best chance for permit reform in the next 4 years died today due to some bad advice from 350 and other environmental groups. Citizens' Climate Lobby fought to the end to pass it, but Big Green helped kill it
Thank you Bill for making this newsletter free. I am a widow and retired 77 yr old lawyer and teacher and a high IQ person, but live in poverty ($2650 a month). Your newsletter allows me to keep my intellectual life alive. Recently was passed to become a LYFT Driver in New Mexico.(one of the few employers other than WallMart that does not age discriminate). They will rent me an EV car for $100 less a week than a gas car. Probably Biden bill stimulus,right?
Many thanks for reading! And driving an electric LYFT is a good way to keep doing some educating--keep spreading the good word about EVs
I wrote a 2 page piece I can share called: What Can You do About the Climate if you Retired? While it will say it is three years old, I just put it on the site today: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4029274671625439520/7879481012839478233
This is a Google Blogspot Hope to year from you in the comments! Dennis Nord
For some reason it won’t open for me
It's been a while since I used this site, here's a better starting point and it updated the date: https://climatecareermoves.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking this Bill !
this is very very smart--and I will pass it around!
Jennifer Granholm is an unqualified political hack.
And you’re a deranged zealot. CHINA is the country taking climate change seriously? How many more megawatts of coal power plants did they install than the rest of the world combined last year?
Go fuck yourself. Not because you’re wrong and misguided(which is fine), but because you’re a lying piece of shit(which is bad).
Malaysia and Vietnam should be installing solar and windmills instead of buying and having imported "natural gas " from the United States.
Great to see coverage. I've been amazed and shocked by how Biden and priors have pushed "natural gas" use and export.
Not to mention Biden almost certainly ordering that the Nordstrom 1 and 2 pipelines be blown up ....which coincidentally gives more market opportunities for us exports....which I've read Rahm Emmanuel is personally pushing like i think Barack Obama once bragged that he was Boeing's top salesman.
Of course I wonder how Biden and Congress and CBS and the Pentagon and NATO would respond if Russia blew up underwater pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico?
So Environmentalist Bill McKibben is on Substack .... one more thing to read!
Mr Dodo B Bird. American Dissident Artist and Environmentalist and Lifelong Poverty Wage Worker.
Dodobbird.pixels.com for my print on demand art sales.
Just FYI....I recently unilaterally declared my No Organization Organization called The International Artist's Campaign To Save The Monarch Butterflies Thru Art Fragrant Flowers Milkweed And Your Idea Here. No Sign Up. No Fees. No Emails.
Truly no Organization!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/my-puppy-wants-a-cheeseburger
Hi Bill - Great piece, as always. But I think we can make more of this if we call it what it is--a government study. Fossil fuel interests and the MAGAs will be quick to try to tar it as a Democrat study. But it was commissioned by the DOE. The Democratic Party had nothing to do with it. Going forward, shall we call it what it is--a landmark government study?
thanks, Bill, for all your incite. davpi3.14
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I am happy to support your work, as a paid subscriber, but given recent information about the direction Substack is heading (see link), I am not happy to support the Substack platform.
Bill McKibben,
I’ve been following your lead since 2006, The End of Nature. My wife and I attended the 7 Stages in Little Five Points Atlanta rally when you were promoting Hillary Clinton in 2016. I’ve been a paying member of your Substack blog for years.
And through all that time you have been a Democratic Party enabler. You supported that party for decades as the only ‘rational’ option for progressive voters. And what has that achieved? Trump in 2016 and 2024.
I wasted my vote in both elections by following your lead. Your leadership and the leadership of the DNC and the Democratic party has failed the country. One would think that you and the party would clean house to get rid of the inept leaders at the top who consistently assume that they are always the smartest people in the room. How idiotic and disappointing!
Your time has passed. The time of the leadership of the Clintonites is done. Maybe the Democratic party is done.
Please do the honorable thing and just retire along with all of your Democrat egg heads. You have nearly destroyed the party. Don’t try to hang on until you complete the job…please. Because if you do it could completely destroy what’s left of our so called democracy.
Get our of the way and allow the real progressives in the party to assert a completely reformed set of ideals.
Fair enough. I obviously supported My forehand neighbor Bernie in 2016 (and even served as one of his five delegates to the platform writing committee) but when he lost I agreed with him that Hilary was far superior to Trump and so as you say worked hard for her. Ditto 2020–and I’d argue that Bernie’s good judgment in backing Biden was rewarded with the IRA. And I supported Kamala this time. I’d stand by all those choices. But I look forward to you and your fellow ‘real progressives’ finding and nominating the next candidate. In the meantime I’ll keep working on all the things that aren’t electoral politics, which is where most of my effort has always gone
To Elaine -- I'm on your side - because there is an available means of installing clean / very inexpensive / electricity "where needed" / "as much as is needed at any 'stationary' or 'movable' site" / "for as long as is needed".
But it unfortunately doesn't seem to fit into to Bill's area of interest - as he has had the information about the power supply for months.
This is Bill's substack - and he has the complete right to not say "boo" about it -- but I then feel that he has given me the right to comment on his topics - - unless he chooses to "expel me" for speaking truth.
"Honesty is a lot better than its opposite." Amen to that! There is a surprising amount of hope here, and more to keep an eye out for. Thanks for making it visible. Happy Advent.
What is LNG? CH4?
Bob Howarth is a national treasure. He’s been warning us about CH4 for years and years. I’m so glad this report is out there.