https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/clean-energy-solar-wind-power.html
By BILL MCKIBBEN – GUEST ESSAY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Excerpt: For the past several years we’ve lived on a planet where the cheapest way to generate energy is to point a sheet of glass at the sun. We can’t stop our efforts to further develop renewable energy. …
The era of federal support for an energy transition, supposed to last a decade under the Inflation Reduction Act, will mostly come to a close on New Year’s Eve, when the cost of clean energy projects could rise by a third or more. This raises a question.
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“And so people who care about climate change need to rouse themselves from understandable despair and make a new stand. Some of us are busy organizing a nationwide event called SunDay on Sept. 21. There will be electric-vehicle parades and solar-powered concerts, ribbon cuttings at solar farms — and protests at city halls and state houses…”
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Climate activist Bill McKibben: ‘Winning The Climate Argument But Losing The Fight’
