Bill McKibben

Here Comes the Sun (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.

Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in historyif we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance.

Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and windand the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan's electric grid in a year to the world's sixth-largest economyCalifornianearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can't hoard solar energy or hold it in reservesit's available to all.

There's no guarantee we can make this change in time, but there is a hopein McKibben's eyes, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324106241
• Artikelnr.: 73265437

Autorenporträt

Bill McKibben is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. Founder of Third Act, a project organizing people over sixty for progressive change, he lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.