Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and founder of 350.org. His most recent book is Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.

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Op-Ed

Movements Without Leaders: What to Make of Change on an Overheating Planet

Is the fight against global warming failing because of a lack of action or a lack of leadership?

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

August 19, 2013

Op-Ed

Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of the Climate Movement?

Bill McKibben: If awareness on climate grows as slowly as it has on gay rights, we’ll be rallying in scuba masks.

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

April 8, 2013

Op-Ed

Why Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President

Maybe if we go fast enough even this all-too-patient president will get caught up in the draft. But weu2019re not waiting for him. We canu2019t.

by: Bill McKibben,; Tom Dispatch

January 6, 2013

News Analysis

The Planet Wreckers: Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes, but So Is the Planet

It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial.

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

June 4, 2012

News Analysis

Too Hot Not to Notice?

The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on…

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

May 3, 2012

Op-Ed

Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History (and Why Taxpayers Shouldn’t Stand for It Any More)

Along with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies.” Last week, for instance, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez proposed ending some of the billions…

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

April 5, 2012

News

The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble,…

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

February 7, 2012

Op-Ed

Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry

(Photo: nathanrandall; Edited: JR / TO) My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve – dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for…

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

January 5, 2012

Op-Ed

What Stinks in DC

It was one of those uncomfortable moments when you suddenly realize you're in the wrong place, that you're a rube from the sticks in a sophisticated city whose…

by: Bill McKibben,; Los Angeles Times

December 14, 2011

News

Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop

Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a…

by: Bill McKibben,; TomDispatch

November 15, 2011