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Bill McKibben

@billmckibben.bsky.social
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Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack billmckibben.substack.com Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2h
Garrison Keillor deep cut
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4h
these guys are lightweights. we're having a polio party at our house! man up, boys!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11h
Welcome aboard!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
All you Terps, pitch in! And many thanks to @thirdactmd.bsky.social
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...
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Ukraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...
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Ukraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If you're near the nation's capitol, join Third Act DMV for No Kings Day--there will be a March to Stop the Arch, and you'll end up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, above the...reflecting pool. Be there! Annoy the president! capitolhillcorner.org/2026/10/13/n...
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Up Date: No Kings Day of Action DC Events – October 17
No Kings Day of Action Events – October 17 Posted by Larry Janezich Tuesday, October 13, 2026 The main event of the No Kings Day of action in DC is being organized by Third Act DMV. The main event …
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hey! Australia is first nation to formally endorse the drive for 300 million solar rooftops across our planet. We can do this! www.globalsolarcouncil.org/news/austral...
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Australia backs plan to double the world's solar homes to 300 million by 2030
Australia has become the first country to endorse a global plan to double the number of homes with rooftop solar by 2030 as part of the 300 million solar homes initiative, putting household solar in t...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hey! Australia is first nation to formally endorse the drive for 300 million solar rooftops across our planet. We can do this! www.globalsolarcouncil.org/news/austral...
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Australia backs plan to double the world's solar homes to 300 million by 2030
Australia has become the first country to endorse a global plan to double the number of homes with rooftop solar by 2030 as part of the 300 million solar homes initiative, putting household solar in t...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I was trying, perhaps inarticulately, to say that pretty much everyone on the clean energy side here is trying to do some good, and that's now how you can distinguish them. you have to look at the details of the policy
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Local elections matter for climate, big time. Public utility commissions? Let’s get into it! @billmckibben.bsky.social McKibben and I interviewed Clara Pratte, running for AZ Corporation Commission. Wherever you get podcasts. www.getitright.earth/podcast ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/a-critical...
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A critical local election in the sunniest state ✅ with Clara Pratte
What the heck is a public utility commission?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
probably best not to engage in a battle of wits with someone who writes country lyrics for a living...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This was such a fine piece of writing!
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@billmckibben.bsky.social explains why he cannot support the permitting reform bill, showing due respect for @whitehouse.senate.gov & clean energy advocates who believe it's a positive step forward. A must-read, both for the analysis & a lesson on how to lower the temperature in fractious debates.
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Making the Decent the Enemy of the Desperate
Or perhaps vice-versa--some notes on permitting reform
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
She did
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
every single election
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
yes. 20 years ago when i was writing a book called 'Enough' I was kind of overwhelmed by how much these tech guys fear death. they think of themselves as highly rational, in no need of the consolations of, say, religion--and yet they seem to have no inner resources for dealing with mortality
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Scientists gave our leaders six months warning, so I'm sure they've got everything battened down...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He is the richest man, so he should have the most say in how we're governed. That's only right, eh? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My mom, age 96, has voted in every election since 1952. Be like her! Get your ballot in now! @thirdactorg.bsky.social
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My mom, age 96, has voted in every election since 1952. Be like her! Get your ballot in now! @thirdactorg.bsky.social
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ike, and I think it was the last republican
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
tell her thanks!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
yes, thank you, that's how i meant it. not in a different octave
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think that's very astute. There is some Jimmy Stewart here, and that's one of the reasons it plays so effectively, including with people much older than Ossoff
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Literally nothing too petty for sycophants like Rubio www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...
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EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Literally nothing too petty for sycophants like Rubio www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...
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EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
She seems to be figuring out her own way, and it’s remarkable
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Never a waver or a stumble. It takes huge concentration. A really good way to practice it is to try and hold the attention of an auditorium full of middle schoolers
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AOC is figuring out her own interesting version I think
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think it's really useful to suss out what is working rhetorically, and it's not just 'don't roll over for fascists.' There's something about the way they're doing it--tough without being snarky--that works particularly well, and others should learn from. And Mamdani is a bit of a magician...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The simultaneous Tropical Storm Watch on the West Coast for Tropical Storm Rachel and the Hurricane Warning for Isaias on the Atlantic coast marks the first time NHC has ever issued watches/warnings simultaneously for both U.S. coastlines." yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/cate...
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Category 3 Hurricane Isaias closes in on the Florida Panhandle » Yale Climate Connections
The first major Atlantic hurricane of 2026 threatens the Gulf Coast with a storm surge of up to 9 feet, damaging winds, flooding, and tornadoes, with impacts spreading across the Southeast on Saturday...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it's not 'people,' just me. sorry to darken your day!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the best--except maybe for Joe Mitchell
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Liebling--a deep cut!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
but that might just be me hearing my own thoughts billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-human-en...
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A human environmentalism
Slightly weird edition with some thoughts on the AI moment
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
my sense was he meant: we actually might have been wise just to not pursue AI at all, that he'd rather his kids grow up in a world like the ones we grew up in where humans were making slow but steady progress on our own
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
what did you think about the part where he differentiated between 'safety' questions and 'wisdom' questions--like, for reasons of human meaning is it even wise to be going down this path?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
fair. but we've done some noble things
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If we care about human nature, we’re going to need to figure out how to conserve it, in some of the same ways we’ve tried to do with nature nature. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-human-en...
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A human environmentalism
Slightly weird edition with some thoughts on the AI moment
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you guys are fantastic organizers!
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Zan Dubin @zandubin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what democracy looks like. Canvassing Sunday in 104-degree heat for Bakersfield's Randy Villegas with @billmckibben.bsky.social, @seedthevote.bsky.social and my other Bill friend thru @thirdactorg.bsky.social's PAC #GetOutTheVote
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If I'm reading this correctly, he is insisting that his followers are migrants
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A truly heroic story, which will benefit everyone (even building owners)
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
according to their own statements, "some bad things" includes a non-trivial chance of human extinction. why on earth do we let these companies continue to operate?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
according to their own statements, "some bad things" includes a non-trivial chance of human extinction. why on earth do we let these companies continue to operate?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
they can in vermont
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every word tells! The Addison Independent is an exemplary local weekly!
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