As temperatures rise, “America is making a concerted effort to make the problem worse as fast as it possibly can,” argues environmentalist Bill McKibben. “We've shut down wind farms that are 90% finished off the Atlantic seaboard, put the federal land off-limits to solar panels, done every possible thing... we could to buck up 18th century energy technology.”show more

I love how McKibben talks…he doesn’t hold back. We are in trouble.

Here's something the cooperative rest of the world can do: impose a heavy carbon penalty on all American goods and services until they start pulling their weight. Their kids will thank us.

America isn’t doing that. The Trump administration and Republicans across the country are making the problem as worse as possible. Many of us are fighting the good fight.

You have a president who wants to corner the market on the world’s oil, and then you are surprised that he is cutting funding for alternative energy sources? He wants the world to bend the knee to his whims.

The fossil fuel industry profits from climate change! The more the planet heats up, the more the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic melts, making resources previously locked up under the ice accessible, driving profits higher. Furthermore: More heat=more energy usage to stay cool!

Frickin greed and ego in Trump administration leads to beyond stupid. Don't they care about their grandchildren??

@CleanAirMoms Younger Americans don’t want to hear about the mid 20th century and people born then. Do they realize this Administration is so focused on their own corruption, that they are taking us back to the 19th century??

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Unfortunately, environmentalist Bill McKibben fails to understand the dire political situation that America and the entire democratic world find themselves in after the US presidential election. “We” have not only “shut down wind farms that are 90% complete along the Atlantic coast, banned the installation of solar panels on federal lands, done everything possible to support 18th century energy technologies". “We” are conducting ALL American policy - according to scenarios and in favor of the Kremlin: we are helping the Kremlin gang - to destroy Ukraine, we have started a military provocation in the Middle East, the beneficiary of which is ONLY the Kremlin, we are weakening the NATO - a single collective security system, a guarantee against external aggression,... Because “we” - Donald Trump - a puppet of the Kremlin - the only enemy of America and the entire democratic world, the result of the Kremlin's successful external systemic interference in the US presidential elections since 2014.

@anneapplebaum It’s embarrassing to live in the country that historically contributed the most to CO2 emissions, and then decided to put the pedal down at the worst possible time.

Thanks. More precisely, as global warming starts #ClimateCatastrophe, our Republican Party “is making a concerted effort to make the problem worse as fast as it possibly can” and succeeding. Earlier today:

Nuclear SMRs are 21st century technology...fossil is being phased out. But wind and solar will only ever be about half the answer. Solar is fine for charging your EV or running a home heat pump. It will never provide 24/7/365 power needed by an AI-based economy with demand going vertical. Batteries are not going to keep up. Only SMRs can do that.

@jboyded trump doing the bidding of one of his donors- FF bodies. He is such a grifter. He will do anything to earn dirty dollars. Looking afterUSA and its good ppl is not his agenda. Truly a treacherous POS! #GetRidOftrump

All done to line the pockets of the oligarchy and corpocracy.

Our leaders are buffoons only interested in enriching themselves and their billionaire oil bros

Bill McKibben has been saying this for thirty years. Moving backwards while the planet cooks tells you everything about where power sits.

Climate change is a grift. Don’t believe this myth for a second, you can interview as many grifters as you like Christiane, doesn’t make it true

Great work America! Same needs to be done in Australia which is being torn apart by this madness.

We did do it Trump shut down the wind turbine farms .

California added solar and it only doubled electric bills. They're more than double the national average.

He's always on the fukcing plane too. Just add a bit more GHGs to Tropo/Stratoshere orange turd won't you.

You and him are both lying idiots.

@PeteJ134 Because the oil / coal etc industries fund Trump & his deeply corrupt cronies. It’s all about them & their grift

If @billmckibben had any real insight into the issue he would be strongly advocating nuclear. But it's prolly hard for him to admit how wrong he was.

The scam is over

I do agree #solar farms don’t belong on public lands or any open land. Put them on top of those massive data centers, malls, parking lots etc etc.

Temperature rise with Summer Season in Northern Hemisphere. Solar panels block photosynthesis. Wind farms take groundwater resources just like Hydroelectric dams.

Would that be the same Mc kibbon who predicted the end of nature in 1989?. I'm sure if he keeps making predictions he'll get one right EVENTUALLY.

Astonishing failure to act for the USA people unfortunately mother nature may respond to the USA. And when it does the blame belongs at the white house sadly, I hope I am wrong climate change does not respect ruthless businessmen like Trump just Leaders who change with the times.

renewables are cheaper than alternatives provide 90% of annual installed capacity year by year have 3 times the number of people working than fossil fuel & been the fastest growing job sector for the last decade Trmp has stopped half the renewable projects

@anneapplebaum The solution is nuclear

Also you are really slow in EV adaptation

Don’t worry temperatures will fall in the winter.

@EmmanuelMacron @McKinsey_MGI @billmckibben @Earthjustice @SierraClub when do we realize we are dealing with criminals that are acting with negligence to national security, public safety, that are committing environmental atrocities acts of #ecocide? @EcocideLaw #France

@Ragcha Unfortunately yes