Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org and ThirdAct.org. His most recent book is 'Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?.
We’re getting right to the nub now.This week the World Meteorological Organization officially certified 2023 as the hottest year in human history. Just to put on the record here what should have been the lead story in every journal and website on our home planet:Andrea Celeste Saulo, secretary general of the WMO, said the organisation was now “sounding the red alert to the world.”The report found temperatures near the surface of the earth were 1.
So, like it or not, the climate crisis is going to be a key part of this election campaign. The November outcome may hinge on whether Americans can imagine making even this small change in the face of the gravest crisis our species has ever wandered into: replacing the gas tank in a car with a battery. That doesn’t seem like much to ask?It won’t solve the climate crisis, of course—nothing will solve it.
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