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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5h

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

game respects game. can't wait!

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 1d

Great @billmckibben.bsky.social piece on the natsec benefits of solar. This is exactly what @councilonstrategicrisks.org has found in our Renewable Energy is National Security project -- countries that invest in clean energy are more resilient in today's competitive geopolitical environment.

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

open.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Is that because of the close association between pirates and poultry?

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Svitlana is a real hero

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

There literally *is* a sentence about it, and a link to the latest article describing the crisis in Zaporizhzhia. It wasn't the main subject of my article, but of course I described it.
Reading before making such charges is recommended! (and thank you for your concern about the trouble!)

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

thank you. this is how it's done.

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 3d

Distributed energy networks are far more secure for energy supply than centralised systems

Energy security in the widest sense.

What's not to like and why do the Right seem to like the more controlling centralised systems? Maybe they have shares in them!!

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

We need widespread deployment of sun and wind to limit the climate crisis
But it could limit the oligarch crisis too

Earth Agora @earthagora.bsky.social · 4d

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast.
Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With @billmckibben.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben

www.theguardian.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d

In New York (world's 10th largest economy), activists coming together to tell the governor that we don't need pipelines--instead, Hochul needs to build out renewables as promised.
readme.readmedia.com/Government-R...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...

A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

An afternoon with the Pope

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...

A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

An afternoon with the Pope

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

good to see you friend!

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

That makes my day!

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Bringing back cavalry charges, that’s what I heard.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 8d

Happy birthday and many thanks for a sage review!

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